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Re:Swift 4.0 Released by ska on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:34PM (#15290599) 

   currently has no meta-programming features, in the interest of performance
This is a false dichotomy.
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Re:Swift 4.0 Released by alexashka on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:42PM (#15290639)
You're right, I'll edit that. Some meta-programming features do require sacrifices in performance, but not in the case of Codable.
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Re:Swift 4.0 Released by ska on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:52PM (#15290684)
And some can increase performance. Thanks for thinking about this though, it's one of the things I appreciate about this place.
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