Re:Speed of Rust vs. C
by skohan on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:33AM
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Do you have a source on this? I didn't think Swift requires runtime reflection to make calling across module boundaries work - I thought `.swiftmodule` files are essentially IR code to avoid this
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Pretty sure the link the parent (to my comment) provided explains this.
It's not the same kind of runtime reflection people talk about when they (for example) use reflection in Java. It's hidden from the library-using programmer, but the calling needs to "communicate" with the library to figure out data layouts and such, and that sounds a lot like reflection to me.