> On Jul 28, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Jordan Rose via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org>
> wrote:
>
> My point is we can't use our usual mangling in the string, because that
> contains type names.
>
We could invent a ‘mangling’ format (either using the existing demangler with a
special flag or something else) where types inside the module are encoded as a
pointer to a nominal type descriptor or something.
This would be useful for remote reflection as well, for secrecy and efficiency
reasons.
Also being able to build metadata from a mangling will allow the standard
library’s Mirror type to use the reflection metadata, instead of a ‘field type
accessor’ which is emitted by IRGen for each value type, saving on code size.
Slava
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