<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 24, 2017, at 4:00 PM, Kelvin Ma via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">why can’t we just remove inlineable functions from ABI altogether? if the argument is that app code won’t be able to take advantage of improved implementations in future library versions i don’t think that makes sense at all i would assume client code gets recompiled much more often than library code and their updates are much more likely to be downloaded by users than library updates. <br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>This is not necessarily true. If Swift were to ship with the OS, updating the OS might install a new Swift standard library without updating all of your apps.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Slava</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Proposal link:</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0193-cross-module-inlining-and-specialization.md" dir="ltr" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/<wbr class="">apple/swift-evolution/blob/<wbr class="">master/proposals/0193-cross-<wbr class="">module-inlining-and-<wbr class="">specialization.md</a><br class=""><ul style="margin:15px 0px;padding-left:30px" class=""><li style="margin:0px" class=""><span class=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">What is your evaluation of <a dir="ltr" class="">the proposal</a>?</span></p></span><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">-1</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">The proposal puts all the emphasis on the programmer. It is better for the compiler to decide if something is to be inclined both across modules and within modules. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">If something is made public then it should be fixed for a given major version number. No need for extra annotation. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">A module system that allows versioning is a better solution. </span></p></li><li style="margin:0px" class=""><span class=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Is the problem being addressed significant enough to warrant a change to Swift?</span></p></span><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Yes significant but wrong solution </span></p></li><li style="margin:0px" class=""><span class=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Does this proposal fit well with the feel and direction of Swift?</span></p></span><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">No, cluttering up declarations is completely against the clarity of Swift. For example who other than people on this group will understand @inline(never) @inlinable. </span></p></li><li style="margin:0px" class=""><span class=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">If you have used other languages or libraries with a similar feature, how do you feel that this proposal compares to those?</span></p></span><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Yes C and C++ and found the equivalent of these annotations problematic. In Java they eliminated all this and let the compiler do the work. In practice this works much better. </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">Perhaps the compiler should publish the SIL or LLVM for all public functions. Analogous to Java’s class files. This sort of system works really will, much better than C and C++. </span></p></li><li style="margin:0px" class=""><span class=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px" class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">How much effort did you put into your review? A glance, a quick reading, or an in-depth study?</span></p></span><div class="">Followed the discussions and read the proposal. The proposal doesn’t seem to encompass all the discussions. It would be nice if the proposal had a much more extensive summary of alternatives suggested. </div></li></ul><div id="m_3618473774001932738AppleMailSignature" class="">-- Howard. </div><span class=""><div class=""><br class="">On 20 Dec 2017, at 7:19 pm, Ted Kremenek via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p style="margin:15px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span class="">The proposal</span> is available here:</p>
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