you can find a bunch of notes on how generic type metadata is represented here: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ABI/TypeMetadata.rst … (probably slightly out of date, they made lots of changes in the run up to ABI stability)
Yeah, I'd be very tempted to do an interpreter for Swift in your position. Could even allow for some cool hot code reload and instant feedback, and maybe even dynamic code generation on iOS devices
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For Rust an interpreter would probably be most useful for improving edit/run cycle time. cc
@eddyb_r Everyone seems to be converging on tiered compilation... e.g. Android is no longer pure AOT -
like miri? (cc
@oli_obk) or something lower-level like Cranelift? (cc@Sunfishcode) - 2 more replies
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