On 23/06/14 06:34 PM, comex wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Benjamin Striegel > <ben.strie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'd like to also note that Apple has no external incentive to improve Swift. >> Objective-C was a dead language before Apple's fiat rocketed it into the >> position of world's third-most-popular programming language. Regardless of >> Swift's implementation or design decisions, it *will* be one of the most >> popular languages in the world come this time next year (likely accompanied >> by Objective-C's meteoric descent). If Swift were a fusion of RPG and >> Malbolge with an implementation written in INTERCAL, this fact would not >> change (thankfully, the Swift designers have better taste). Why bother >> straining yourself to satisfy a captive audience, when your only real >> competitor is whatever dialect of Java that Dalvik supports? > > For one thing, Swift ought to be an appealing potential competitor for > Apple's internal high-performance frameworks, which are currently all > C++.
Perhaps with the -Ofast hack...
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