The feature was added only to avoid a reverse-condfail
in the initial bring-up of noncopyable generics.
Nearly 2 years have passed since the last time I tried
to remove this old technical debt [1] and had to revert
it due to outdated build bots [2]. Hoping that won't be
a problem this time.
[1] 5b2f2cbfcf
[2] https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/pull/75267
resolves rdar://131560183
Improve the version/flags extract from interface file by moving away
from using Regex and limiting the search to the beginning of the file.
Switch away from Regex will give 5-10% improvement in time and
instruction counts, and limiting the search lines can save a lot of time
if the swiftinterface is large. For example, the extract time for Swift
stdlib is 10x faster after the patch.
Current strategey for limiting the line to search is by only parsing the
first comment block.
Kavon Farvardin
Steven Wu