[Mono-dev] gmcs and The Future

[russell.kay at realtimeworlds.com]

Yes but this is only for a very small class of functions that we know
will work correctly within these constraints... its not for everyone I
know, but it is still a feature that we would like to have.

Russell

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Probst [mailto:mark.probst at gmail.com] 
Sent: 04 February 2009 16:14
To: Jb Evain
Cc: Russell Kay; mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com; scott at ssblack.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] gmcs and The Future

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Jb Evain <jb at nurv.fr> wrote:
>>  So I'm not expecting the C# compiler to output anything other than
IL
>>  but just eliminate the calling overhead and not relying on the JIT
to do
>>  the inlining.
>
> That's just not possible for a large majority of the cases, as it
> would cause a lot of access exceptions. You can't simply inline an
> instance method which reads a private field in its own type, inside
> another type for instance.

Apart from the fact that if you're inlining a method from a different
assembly by "importing" it you're not only depending on the interface
of the assembly not to change in the future, but also on the
implementation, which is a very bad idea.

Mark

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