Hi Stephan,

Do you have some benchmarks that you could share? That would help us focus 
performance work in the right area.

I know that 2-item IndexPaths are super common with UIKit collection view and 
friends, so we may just want to special case those. Unfortunately, NSIndexPath 
is not abstract, so subclassing it in the same way that we do for a few of the 
other bridged types (to use native Swift refcounting) is not easy. On the other 
hand, the ObjC implementation does use tagged pointers, so some NSIndexPaths 
are really cheap to create.

- Tony

> On Aug 1, 2016, at 11:44 PM, Stephan Tolksdorf via swift-corelibs-dev 
> <swift-corelibs-dev@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> IndexPath is currently implemented using an [Int] array that is bridged to an 
> NSIndexPath only on demand. Since IndexPath values are primarily used 
> together with Objective-C APIs, wouldn't it be better to implement IndexPath 
> directly as an NSIndexPath wrapper, in order to avoid the overhead of 
> temporary array instances?
> 
> - Stephan
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