[swift-users] Swift creduce

[Doug Hill]

Wow, very cool. I'm not going to lie, creduce really does have some magic going on. :)

Thanks everyone, I'll go back to creduce and see how it handles Swift.

Doug Hill


> On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:21 PM, Huon Wilson <huon at apple.com> wrote:
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> No; Swift just looks C-like enough that many of the various heuristics creduce has still work reasonably efficiently. Unless one's “good or not” script is doing something weird, the areas where creduce doesn’t understand Swift are ignored, because the compiler output is not going to match what the script is checking for.
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> The main downside of it not understanding Swift is that it is likely to be slower than on C, since it’ll be wasting its time on some mutations that will very very rarely be interesting.
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> Huon
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>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 17:16, Doug Hill <swiftusers at breaqz.com> wrote:
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>> Ok, that's unexpected. Does creduce know about Swift now?
>> 
>> Doug Hill
>> 
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>>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Slava Pestov <spestov at apple.com> wrote:
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>>> Huon noticed that creduce actually works pretty well with Swift as-is. I’ve been using it without any issues.
>>> 
>>> Slava
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>>>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Doug Hill via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a version of 'creduce' for Swift?
>>>> 
>>>> I did some basic googling and didn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask here.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> Doug Hill
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