I am curious why this optimization went in instead of guarded speculative inlining, which would let you keep dynamism. Maybe that was too complicated to implement or didn’t have the right performance characteristics. But I guess this isn’t really the right list for discussing that…
Saagar Jha > On Nov 20, 2019, at 14:27, Jens Alfke via Cocoa-dev > <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > > >> On Nov 20, 2019, at 2:16 PM, Jean-Daniel via Cocoa-dev >> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >> >> If Obj-C is dead, why is Apple still adding new language extensions (and not >> minor one) ? >> >> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d4e1ba3fa9dfec2613bdcc7db0b58dea490c56b1 >> >> <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d4e1ba3fa9dfec2613bdcc7db0b58dea490c56b1> > > Oh neat, this is basically non-virtual methods for Objective-C. Useful for > optimization of internal methods — not just because the call is faster, but > because the method body is now inlineable. > > I remember talk of this inside Apple way back when (early 2000s) but at the > time IIRC it was considered too dangerous to be worth the performance gain. > These days it's probably even more of a win because of LTO. > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/saagar%40saagarjha.com > > This email sent to saa...@saagarjha.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
