Hooboy.

I promise I'm not trying to stir anything up, but the OpenBSD
folk visited part of this problem about a year and a half ago.
They found that dropping inlines improved performance, as I recall.
The announcement re: "we're on a search and destroy vs. inlines"
in the <tech@openbsd.org> archive is here:

	http://www.sigmasoft.com/~openbsd/archives/html/openbsd-tech/2004-07/ 
msg00175.html

But the thread itself kinda...wanders off aimlessly.

My mentioning this is in no way endorsing or supporting any
conclusions these folk came to, I merely bring it up as an FYI
re: prior art.

Chris <jepeway@blasted-heath.com>.