[swift-dev] State of Semantic ARC?

[Michael Gottesman]

> On Jul 8, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Johannes Weiß via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi swift-dev,
> 
> I haven't heard anything about semantic ARC and couldn't really find much documentation besides https://gottesmm.github.io/proposals/high-level-arc-memory-operations.html . So I wanted to ask how much of it is implemented and what the plan for Swift 4/5 regarding Semantic ARC is.

Many of Semantic ARC's changes were in Swift 4, but we did not turn on the ownership verifier for Swift 4. This is because getting the stdlib to pass the verifier (a constraint for turning it on for non-stdlib code) would have been too disruptive at that time to land. The overall plan is to continue working on Semantic ARC (If you look at the commits list, I have been landing code for it recently). In fact, I just got stdlibCore (*note*, not the entire stdlib) to pass the ownership verifier, so progress is being made.

Did I answer your question?

Michael

> 
> -- Johannes
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