[swift-dev] [Draft Proposal] Refactor SILParser::parseSILInstruction

[Michael Gottesman]

> On Jan 13, 2016, at 9:08 PM, Michael Gottesman via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 13, 2016, at 3:35 PM, John McCall via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 13, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>>> Hey, Sergey. It definitely makes sense to refactor this, but I don't think putting methods on SILInstruction is the way to go about it. There's no reason most clients of SIL need to know anything about parsing; from a separation-of-concerns perspective it belongs in a separate header and very likely a separate component (i.e. not lib/SIL/).
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>>> If this were Swift, we could use an extension, but alas. :-)
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>>> That said, I'm not a heavy user of SIL, so someone else from the Swift team with more of a stake should comment.
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>> I agree with you completely.
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>> Also, the SIL instruction parser does not actually have an instance of an instruction to perform virtual dispatch on.  Nor should we introduce the concept of “wireframe” instructions just for the convenience of the parser. Redundancy between cases here should be addressed with normal redundancy elimination techniques, i.e. macros and templates.
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> The way to do this is to have a visitor parser that takes in a ValueKind and maps it to the parser routine to use.

Let me rephrase. IIRC the way that this code is written is it first deserializes the value kind. Imagine if we had a visitor that was composed with the parser whose visitor methods would perform the relevant parsing.

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> Michael
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>> John.
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