It is now no longer needed to have a ty::ctxt to get at the contents
of a ty::t. The straight-forward approach of doing this, simply making
ty::t a box type, unfortunately killed our compiler performance (~15%
slower) through refcounting cost. Thus, this patch now represents
ty::t as an unsafe pointer, assuming that the ty::ctxt, which holds
these boxes alive, outlives any uses of the ty::t values. In the
current compiler this trivially holds, but it is does of course add a
new potential pitfall.
ty::get takes a ty::t and returns a boxed representation of the type.
I've changed calls to ty::struct(X) to do ty::get(X).struct. Type
structs are full of vectors, and copying them every time we wanted to
access them was a bit of a cost.
This allows a 'Name:' to appear in front of an iface declaration's
name, which will cause 'Name' to refer to the self type (with the same
number of type parameters as the iface has) in the method signatures
of the iface. For example:
iface F: functor<A> {
fn fmap<B>(f: fn(A) -> B) -> F<B>;
}
Issue #1718
Use ifaces instead of objs, stop wrapping everything in two (or three)
layers of no-value-added indirection, and remove some of the more
pointless/outdated idioms from the code.
Also shuffles around the organization of numeric literals and types,
separating by int/uint/float instead of machine-vs-non-machine types.
This simplifies some code.
Closes#974Closes#1252
It's proving too inflexible, so I'm ripping out the extra complexity
in the hope that regions will, at some point, provide something
similar.
Closes#918
This is intended to solve the problem of how to pass arguments to
constructor functions -- you want to move in rvalues, but not have to
explicitly copy stuff that is not an rvalue. The by-copy passing
convention will ensure the callee gets its own copy of the value. For
rvalues, it'll just pass off the value. For lvalues, it'll make a
copy.
Issue #1177
This goes before a snapshot, so that subsequenct patches can make the
transition without breaking the build. Disables kind checking pass, makes
parser accept both new and old-style kind annotation.
Issue #1177
