The value witnesses are always available through type metadata (through an extra indirection). Saving that indirection costs 16 words (and growing!) in every witness table, and when we start instantiating conformances for generic instances, would require us to instantiate practically every generic witness table. Removing the value witnesses from the protocol witness table means we will only need to instantiate witness tables when associated types are dependent on the conforming type's type variables.
This is an ABI break, but should have no user-visible functional change.
Swift SVN r6651
Provide a lowering for the DeinitExistential instruction to deallocate the buffer in an existential container with an uninitialized value, using its deallocateBuffer witness.
Swift SVN r5623
storage in a flags word in the value witness table. Pack the
alignment into only 16 bits of this word. Optimize tuple value
witnesses based on whether they're POD and inline.
Swift SVN r5138
To be able to get the dynamic type of a generic value, the 'typeof' operation needs to be part of the value witness for the type. Add 'typeof' to the value witness table layout, and in the runtime, provide standard typeof witnesses for static, Swift class, and ObjC class values.
Swift SVN r5013
