Go中的内联函数

Question

Go has a nice generic implementation of introsort using the generic sort.Interface. But one of the advantages of C++'s std::sort is that you can specify a compare functor which is inlined and unnecessary function calls are omitted. Can we force the current native Go compilers somehow to inline those sort.Swap and sort.Less calls? I do not consider gccgo because it gives us terrible results compared to the native compiler.

Answer 1

For Go 1.x the answer is a sound no.

The Go compiler may inline some classes of functions on some platforms in some specific ways. You might even be able to figure out some trickery through which you can make the current compiler inline the sort-"functor" on your architecture but there is absolutely no guarantee whatsoever that this will hold in future releases and it may work against you (even break your code, depending on the level of hackery involved) when the compiler changes.

A major release of Go (2.x?) might provide some guarantees about optimizations; but for Go 1.x there's nothing like that. And even if the Go authors wanted to do this it's difficult to provide such guarantees for all platforms (remember Go runs on many architectures).

Even more generally it is a bad idea to rely on compiler-specific behavior, in any language.