On 2/1/15 3:28 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
IIRC he also proposed moving more of TypeInfo implementation to the runtime so TypeInfo layout can be modified by the runtime or even completely avoided by not implementing it in the runtime. The main response was that it complicates compiler code too much for little benefit.
Interesting. I naïvely believe it would simplify rather than complicate the compiler. -- Andrei