[swift-evolution] Dynamic Class/Struct Definition At Run Time

Jeremy Pereira jeremy.j.pereira at googlemail.com
Wed Oct 12 03:52:40 CDT 2016


> On 11 Oct 2016, at 14:15, Ted F.A. van Gaalen via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> While Swift is mainly a statically typed language, recompilation or additional 
> compilation and somehow link it al together is obviously necessary at run time, 
> each time a dynamic structure is defined. 
> Because of this, it will most probably have performance drawbacks 
> at run time

Not the least of which would be the need to install a Swift compiler toolchain on the target Mac - or iOS device.


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