[swift-evolution] Pitch: Cross-module inlining and specialization

[David Hart]

> On 4 Oct 2017, at 07:16, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> 
>> On Oct 3, 2017, at 10:11 PM, Slava Pestov <spestov at apple.com <mailto:spestov at apple.com>> wrote:
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>>>> However I’m still waiting for Dave or Jordan to chime in with the original justification for the ‘always emit into client’ behavior. IIRC there was a resilience-related argument too, but I don’t remember what it is now.
>>> 
>>> The only argument I can imagine is the “If it gets inlined, you’re guaranteed to get the version of the symbol you build against”.  The concern is that some instances are inlined and some are not, and if the inline and out of line versions diverge then you can have exciting problems.
>>> 
>>> My view on that is that you’ve already lost if you’d done this.  If you mark a declaration as fragile (allowing it to be inlined) you’ve specifically guaranteed that you’re not going to be changing the observable semantics of the function.  Introducing new performance optimizations is fine of course.
>> 
>> I understand your reasoning here, but note that in Jordan’s proposal, he’s adding two new keywords, exhaustive and nonexhaustive. If exhaustive becomes @fragile, does nonexhaustive still make sense?
> 
> Independently of how exhaustive is spelled, nonexhaustive doesn’t make sense to me.  It should be the default.  Swift doesn’t have keywords to redundantly specify the default unless there is a specific reason to be able to do that.  
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> The example often cited is “nonmutating”, but it isn’t there to cover the default: it is specifically required because setters default to mutating so it must exist to be change that default.

Happy to see I’m not the only one with this opinion.

> -Chris
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