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.error { color:#AA0000; }</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="bloop_markdown"><p>Okay I get it now. You meant the size for a metatype <code>sizeof(T.Type.self)</code>. This is indeed 8 bytes, at least not for optimized <code>Bool</code> (as you showed).</p>
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<p>Internally, Type<t> contains an Int, i.e. identifier of a type. For every type, compiler must choose a different identifier</t></p>
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<p>We can already implement this with <code>Hashable</code> protocol. </p>
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<p>ObjectIdentifier: A unique identifier for a class instance or metatype.</p>
<p>In Swift, only class instances and metatypes have unique identities. There
is no notion of identity for structs, enums, functions, or tuples.</p>
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<pre><code class="swift">// version 1:
public let hashValue: Int = ObjectIdentifier(T.self).hashValue
// version 2 (uses ObjectIdentifier calculation without
// constructing an instance of ObjectIdentifier):
init() {
// calculate the hashValue only once
// I'd rename `.self` to `.metatype`
let rawPointerMetatype = unsafeBitCast(T.self, to: Builtin.RawPointer.self)
self.hashValue = Int(Builtin.ptrtoint_Word(rawPointerMetatype))
}
public let hashValue: Int
</code></pre>
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<p>API of Type<t> is defined so that it can only contain identifiers of subtypes of T</t></p>
<p>For example, when you get a variable of Type<baseclass>, it can correspond to BaseClass or DerivedClass</baseclass></p>
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<p>I did a quick test and I feel like this falls under the part of tweaking dynamic casts to work with <code>Type<T></code>. There is no special compiler magic needed, <code>unsafeBitCast</code> should do the trick. Or we should teach dynamic casts to work with the inner type <code>T</code> instead of the whole <code>Type<T></code>.</p>
<pre><code class="swift">public struct Type<T> : Hashable {
public let metatype: T.Type = T.self
public let hashValue: Int = ObjectIdentifier(T.self).hashValue
}
public func ==<T, U>(lhs: Type<T>, rhs: Type<U>) -> Bool {
return lhs.hashValue == rhs.hashValue
}
public func asOptionalCast<U, T>(type: Type<T>) -> Type<U>? {
guard (type.metatype as? U.Type) != nil else {
return nil
}
return unsafeBitCast(type, to: Type<U>.self)
}
class A {}
class B: A {}
let typeB = Type<B>()
// downcast Type<B> to Type<A>
let downcast: Type<A>? = asOptionalCast(type: typeB)
(downcast! == typeB) == true
// cast Type<A> (which here is Type<B>) back to Type<B>
let upcast: Type<B>? = asOptionalCast(type: downcast!)
(upcast! == Type<B>()) == true
</code></pre>
<p>The good part here that the hash value of the casted type won’t change and testing against a new instance of the same dynamic type will be always true.</p>
<p></p></div><div class="bloop_original_html"><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1468438198359462144" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Adrian Zubarev<br>Sent with Airmail</div></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">Am 13. Juli 2016 um 20:31:22, Anton Zhilin (<a href="mailto:antonyzhilin@gmail.com">antonyzhilin@gmail.com</a>) schrieb:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
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<p><span class="">Am 13. Juli 2016 um 18:30:53, Anton Zhilin
(<a href="mailto:antonyzhilin@gmail.com" target="_blank">antonyzhilin@gmail.com</a>) schrieb:</span></p>
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<div><span class="">I see model of<span> </span><font face="monospace, monospace">Type<T></font><span> </span>as
follows:</span></div>
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<li style="margin:15px 0px">Values of<span> </span><font face="monospace, monospace">Type<T></font><span> </span>are
identifiers of types (8 bytes, I guess)<br></li>
<li style="margin:15px 0px">All used identifiers are contained
in<span> </span><font face="monospace, monospace">Type<Any></font><br></li>
<li style="margin:15px 0px"><font face="monospace, monospace">Type<T></font><span> </span>contains
a subset of those identifiers</li>
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<p>I can’t follow your though here. Is this a totally new
behavior?</p>
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<div>That's how it works right now:</div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">sizeofValue(Bool.self)
//=> 0
(optimized away)<br></font></div>
<div><font face="monospace, monospace">sizeofValue(Bool.self as
Any.self) //=> 8</font><br></div>
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<div>I'll put my thoughts another way:</div>
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<ul>
<li>Internally, <font face="monospace, monospace">Type<T></font> contains an <font face="monospace, monospace">Int</font>, i.e. identifer of a type. For
every type, compiler must choose a different identifier</li>
<li>API of <font face="monospace, monospace">Type<T></font>
is defined so that it can only contain identifiers of subtypes of
<font face="monospace, monospace">T</font></li>
<li>For example, when you get a variable of <font face="monospace, monospace">Type<BaseClass></font>, it can
correspond to <font face="monospace, monospace">BaseClass</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font>or<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><font face="monospace, monospace">DerivedClass</font></li>
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<ol style="margin:15px 0px">
<li style="margin:15px 0px"><span class="">Upcasting uses
constructor<span> </span><font face="monospace, monospace">init<U: T>(upcasting:
Type<U>)</font></span></li>
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<p>It does look neat but I can’t implement it. At least I have no
clue how to solve the problem that `T` is not a protocol or a class
type.</p>
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<div>We should add implicit convertion of <font face="monospace, monospace">Type<U></font> to <font face="monospace, monospace">Type<T></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">, dulicating current behaviour
of</font> <font face="monospace, monospace">`as
T.Type`</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">That constructor
still can be useful, but it will be failable and not that
significant in practise.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I don't like adding
compiler magic, but I guess we really should in this case, because
otherwise</font> <font face="monospace, monospace">Type<T></font> <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">can't replace</font> <font face="monospace, monospace">T.Type</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">.</font></div>
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<ol style="margin:15px 0px">
<li style="margin:15px 0px"><span class="">Size
of<span> </span><font face="monospace, monospace">Type<Type<T>></font><span> </span>is
8, static size of<span> </span><font face="monospace, monospace">Type<SomeProtocol></font><span> </span>is
0</span></li>
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<p>I feel like you mean something different here than this:</p>
<p>```swift</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">
<span>protocol</span> <span>SomeProtocol {}</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">
<span>sizeof</span><span>(</span><span>SomeProtocol</span><span>.</span><span>self</span><span>)
==</span> <span>40</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo">
<span>```</span></p>
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<div>That was a mistake. Static size of <font face="monospace, monospace">Type<SomeProtocol></font> will be 40,
and size property of its values can be less or greater than 40,
depending on internal type identifier.<br></div>
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