<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:52 AM, Slava Pestov <<a href="mailto:spestov@apple.com">spestov@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 4, 2017, at 9:40 PM, Taylor Swift via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">i’m just tryna follow along here && this is probably a dumb question, but is it possible for a generic function to be emitted as a set of specialized functions into the client, but not inlined everywhere? It can be the case where a large generic function gets slowed down by the large number of generic operations inside it but it doesn’t make sense for it to be inlined completely.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">This is already possible. The optimizer doesn’t have to inline an @_inlineable function at its call site; it can emit a call to a specialized version instead.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Slava</div></div></blockquote><br><div>Is there a reason using @_specialize() and @_inlineable together is slower than using @_inlineable by itself?</div></body></html>