[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Sealed classes by default

[David Sweeris]

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> On Jun 29, 2016, at 17:45, Rod Brown via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> From my understanding, "Sealed" or whatever we will call it technically provides no actual optimisations. We cannot assume the class is final because something inside the module may have vended a subclass.

Sure we can. Because the class is sealed, the compiler can know that no further subclassing is possible, which can allowing it to use static dispatch, inlining, etc wherever possible.

I think...

- Dave Sweeris