Hi @davidfetter thanks for taking interest. Can you explain the inlining part? Is this a performance gain?

Partly performance, partly clarity of the code.

And apart from clarity of code, from your perspective, is there any significant performance gain in general? Any documentation about this? Do you plan on using this code?

In general, the gain I see is more in clarity than in performance, but there are some easy performance wins to be had, some by refactoring to be more declarative.

Right. This is a bit of a pet project, but I also intend to use it in production soon, so I'd like the API to be stable (although I was planning on returning json from most functions instead of text, since my primary use case is usage via a REST API). But given that, it would be great if you were willing to submit a patch. I'm sure I'll learn something in the process.