> On May 31, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > AFAICT compile-time code generation suffers from the C++ templates problem - > my understanding is that if you don't have access to the definition of the > template you can't specialize. A Swift (regular, non-variadic) generic > function can be called with any conforming type without need for > specialization through dynamic dispatch, with specialization still existing > as an optimization. Having the same apply to variadic generics would be a > significant advantage.
I believe there has been some discussion of packaging SIL (or something like that) with modules for at least some generic constructs to allow specialization across module boundaries. > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:08 AM, David Sweeris <daveswee...@mac.com > <mailto:daveswee...@mac.com>> wrote: > Out of curiosity, why? > > - Dave Sweeris > >> On May 31, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote: >> >> How so? I'm interested in anything that can get us away from having to >> generating code at compile-time. >> >> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:04 AM, L. Mihalkovic >> <laurent.mihalko...@gmail.com <mailto:laurent.mihalko...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> What's interesting about the code in the manifesto is that it looks very >> much like "..." is a runtime construct, as opposed to trying the get the >> compiler to do the heavy lifting. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution> > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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