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Inline functions? (Score:2)
I know this comment is late, but I was wondering if it would be feasible to inline function calls to avoid the function call overhead? I remember chromatic mentioning that he looked into this and saw that the pads were going to slow it down regardless (I could be misremembering) and I suspect that the difficulty in distinguishing between methods and subroutines would make this idea pretty much dead, but if it was feasible, would this speed up Perl?
Re:Inline functions? (Score:2)
Well, you have to assume that the function isn't going to get dynamically redefined. (or even memoized [cpan.org]). So inlining would be more like macros than true functions. I think someone was mentioning this on p5p at some point, but I've no idea how evolved (or involved) the implementation would be.
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