[swift-users] Bls: module (de)-initialization

[Mr Bee]

> Unloading Swift modules will likely never be supported, since this would impose a ton of complexity and performance cost on the runtime for little benefit.
Hmmm… so Swift will only support static linking? I thought Swift is a modern programming language with modern and advance features. Even Pascal/Delphi has had those features since ages ago. 
–Mr Bee
 

    Pada Kamis, 22 Desember 2016 1:06, Joe Groff via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> menulis:
 

 
> On Dec 20, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Jens Alfke via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Also, AFAIK there is no mechanism in Swift (yet) to load or unload a module at runtime, so a module load occurs when the program starts up, and an unload occurs when the program exits. 

dlopen works fine, though the only supported ways of getting a callable symbol out of the loaded image are currently to use a C entry point or look up a type defined in the module by name. Unloading Swift modules will likely never be supported, since this would impose a ton of complexity and performance cost on the runtime for little benefit. (Apple's ObjC runtime does not support unloading dylibs after classes inside them have been reified either.)

-Joe
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