On 23/06/14 05:57 PM, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Micay <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Rust is a performance-centric systems language, Swift is not.
> 
> 
> You say that, but I don't see how it applies to my argument. 2 of the 3
> options I proposed are purely additive changes to Rust that would not
> affect at all how it works today, besides adding new functionality. I'm
> just proposing that the new functionality mirror what Swift is doing, so
> that optimizations that are added to LLVM by Apple/Swift can be
> leveraged by Rust too.
> 
> Make sense?

The language shouldn't be designed around the hypothetical good will of
a corporation. Anyway, I don't know why Swift would have the high-level
SIL IR layer if that's not where they plan on doing these optimizations.

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