[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0136: Memory Layout of Values

Karl razielim at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 09:05:23 CDT 2016


> On 8 Aug 2016, at 04:18, Dave Abrahams <dabrahams at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> on Sun Aug 07 2016, Karl <razielim-AT-gmail.com <http://razielim-at-gmail.com/>> wrote:
> 
>>> 	* What is your evaluation of the proposal?
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>> Although if I was nitpicking I prefer the name “ofInstance” (as in the
>> stdlib private function) to “ofValue”.
> 
> The problem with “ofInstance” is that a class instance will be reported
> to be the same size as Int.  Most people think of a class instance as
> the place where its stored properties live, not the reference.

Is there a way to get the size of the stored properties? I had a look but couldn’t find one.
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