Is it possible to make Google Closure compiler *not* inline certain functions?

Question

Closure compiler is inlining a function, but the code size is smaller if that function is not inlined (I only care about code size - this is for JS1k). Can I tell the compiler t

Answer 1

This is an old question, but as of v20180101, Google Closure Compiler has an annotation that prevents inlining: @noinline.

In your original example, all you'd need is to add jsdoc with this annotation in front of the function that shouldn't be inlined:

/** @noinline */
function hello(name) {
  alert('Hello, ' + name);
}
hello('New user');