> On Jul 29, 2017, at 4:24 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-dev > <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2017, at 2:20 PM, Joe Groff via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> > wrote: >> >> Overall, my intuition is that the tradeoffs come out in favor for nonunique >> metadata objects, but what do you all think? Is there anything I'm missing? > > I think your proposal makes sense, particularly when we start caring about > metadata/conformances for non-nominal types, which don’t have a declaration > location. They are a bit over the horizon right now, but we need to support > making tuples conform to protocols someday. Eliminating the requirement for > them to be uniquely emitted across the entire program would make that much > simpler, because otherwise you’re in the land of weak symbols or something.
Not really, because the conformance is presumably still declared somewhere in Swift and therefore has a natural unique definition point even if the type doesn't. John. _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
