29th September 2017, 2 min read

How smart is Swift with abstraction? A trivial experiment with protocols

4 thoughts on “How smart is Swift with abstraction? A trivial experiment with protocols”

1. Franklin Chen says:
   October 1, 2017 at 10:16 pm

   Rust version also inlines all the way to 800.

   https://godbolt.org/g/2gw5Tj

   1. Daniel Lemire says:
      October 1, 2017 at 10:17 pm

      That would have been my expectation, but thanks for checking!

2. Elazar Leibovich says:
   October 24, 2017 at 5:12 pm

   Are you sure C would do that by default with two translation units?

   Is LTO on by default?

   1. Daniel Lemire says:
      October 24, 2017 at 5:20 pm

      That’s a fair point. In C and C++, you may end up with slower code.

      Point is: Swift does well in this instance.