Frontend outputs source-as-compiled, and source-ranges file with function body ranges and ranges that were unparsed in secondaries.
Driver computes diffs for each source file. If diffs are in function bodies, only recompiles that one file. Else if diffs are in what another file did not parse, then the other file need not be rebuilt.
A ‘forwarding module’ is a YAML file that’s meant to stand in for a .swiftmodule file and provide an up-to-date description of its dependencies, always using modification times.
When a ‘prebuilt module’ is first loaded, we verify that it’s up-to-date by hashing all of its dependencies. Since this is orders of magnitude slower than reading mtimes, we’ll install a `forwarding module` containing the mtimes of the now-validated dependencies.
We already have something called "module interfaces" -- it's the
generated interface view that you can see in Xcode, the interface
that's meant for developers using a library. Of course, that's also a
textual format. To reduce confusion, rename the new module stability
feature to "parseable [module] interfaces".
...but don't hook it up to anything yet.
This is the very very start of the module stability / textual
interfaces feature described at
https://forums.swift.org/t/plan-for-module-stability/14551/
For now I've just made it a frontend option (not a driver option),
which is good enough for testing.
