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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