This has been the behavior of the runtime since the initial release.
Initially, it was thought that task executors would provide similar
functionality, so they naturally took over the enumerator. After that
changed, we forgot to change it back. Fortunately, we haven't released
any versions of Swift with the task executors feature yet, so it's not
too late to fix this.
The new intrinsic, exposed via static functions on Task<T, Never> and
Task<T, Error> (rethrowing), begins an asynchronous context within a
synchronous caller's context. This is only available for use under the
task-to-thread concurrency model, and even then only under SPI.
Change the code generation patterns for `async let` bindings to use an ABI based on the following
functions:
- `swift_asyncLet_begin`, which starts an `async let` child task, but which additionally
now associates the `async let` with a caller-owned buffer to receive the result of the task.
This is intended to allow the task to emplace its result in caller-owned memory, allowing the
child task to be deallocated after completion without invalidating the result buffer.
- `swift_asyncLet_get[_throwing]`, which replaces `swift_asyncLet_wait[_throwing]`. Instead of
returning a copy of the value, this entry point concerns itself with populating the local buffer.
If the buffer hasn't been populated, then it awaits completion of the task and emplaces the
result in the buffer; otherwise, it simply returns. The caller can then read the result out of
its owned memory. These entry points are intended to be used before every read from the
`async let` binding, after which point the local buffer is guaranteed to contain an initialized
value.
- `swift_asyncLet_finish`, which replaces `swift_asyncLet_end`. Unlike `_end`, this variant
is async and will suspend the parent task after cancelling the child to ensure it finishes
before cleaning up. The local buffer will also be deinitialized if necessary. This is intended
to be used on exit from an `async let` scope, to handle cleaning up the local buffer if necessary
as well as cancelling, awaiting, and deallocating the child task.
- `swift_asyncLet_consume[_throwing]`, which combines `get` and `finish`. This will await completion
of the task, leaving the result value in the result buffer (or propagating the error, if it
throws), while destroying and deallocating the child task. This is intended as an optimization
for reading `async let` variables that are read exactly once by their parent task.
To avoid an epoch break with existing swiftinterfaces and ABI clients, the old builtins and entry
points are kept intact for now, but SILGen now only generates code using the new interface.
This new interface fixes several issues with the old async let codegen, including use-after-free
crashes if the `async let` was never awaited, and the inability to read from an `async let` variable
more than once.
rdar://77855176
Collapse the `group` parameter of this API into the task options, and
have existing callers set up the options appropriately. The goal for
this function is to become the centralized entry point for all task
creation, with an extensible interface.
ExecutorRefs are a (pointer, witness table) pair that are meant to be
passed around. We don't need to form a reference to one because
they are ABI already.
introduce new options parameter to all task spawning
[Concurrency] ABI for asynclet start to accept options
[Concurrency] fix unittest usages of changed task creation ABI
[Concurrency] introduce constants for parameter indexes in ownership
[Concurrency] fix test/SILOptimizer/closure_lifetime_fixup_concurrency.swift
