Switch StringObject and StringGuts from opaquely storing tagged cocoa
strings into storing small strings. Plumb small string support
throughout the standard library's routines.
Streamline internal String creation. Previously, everything funneled
into a single generic function, however, every single call of the
generic funnel had relevant specific information that could be used
for a more efficient algorithm.
In preparation for efficiently forming small strings, refactor this
logic into a handful of more specialized subroutines to preserve more
specific information from the callers.
Use the visitor pattern in most of the opaque-by-hand call
sites. Inspecting the compiler output does not show excessive and
unanticipated ARC, but there may need to be further tweaks.
One downside of the visitor pattern as written is that there's extra
shuffling around of registers for the closure CC. Hopefully this will
also be fixed soon.
Stop inlining _asOpaque into user code. Inlining it bloats user code
as there's a bit-test-and-branch to a block containing the _asOpaque
call, followed up some operations to e.g. manipulate the range or
re-align the calling convention, etc., followed by a final branch to
opaque stdlib code.
Instead, branch directly into opaque stdlib code. In theory, this
means that supporting all opaque patterns can be done with minimal
bloat. On ARM, this is a single tbnz instruction.
In preparation for small strings optimizations, bifurcate StringGuts's
inits to denote when the caller is choosing to skip any checks for is
small. In the majority of cases, the caller has more local information
to guide the decision.
Adds todos and comments as well:
* TODO(SSO) denotes any task that should be done simultaneously with
the introduction of small strings.
* TODO(TODO: JIRA) denotes tasks that should eventually happen
later (and will have corresponding JIRAs filed for).
* TODO(Comparison) denotes tasks when the new string comparison
lands.
Include the initial implementation of _StringGuts, a 2-word
replacement for _LegacyStringCore. 64-bit Darwin supported, 32-bit and
Linux support in subsequent commits.
- Revise Equatable and Hashable for synthesized requirements
- Complete Strideable and stride(from:...:by:) documentation
- Revise DoubleWidth type docs
- Add complexity notes for Set.index(of:) and .contains(_:)
- Fix typos in Set.formUnion docs
- Add missing axioms for SetAlgebra (SR-6319)
- Improve guidance for description and debugDescription
- Add note about the result of passing duplicate keys to
Dictionary(uniqueKeysWithValues:)
- Fix typo in BinaryInteger docs
- Update Substring docs with better conversion example
- Improve docs for withMemoryRebound and isKnownUniquelyReferenced
- Add missing docs not propagated from protocols
- remove additional 'characters' references from String docs
- improved language around escaping pointer arguments
- key path type abstracts
- codable type abstract revisions
- a few more NSString API fixes
* removing .characters from examples
* beginning new String doc revisions
* improvements to the String Foundation overlay docs
* minor revisions elsewhere
* [stdlib] String : RangeReplaceableCollection & BidirectionalCollection
* Add source compatibility hack for Swift.max
* Add source compatibility hack for Swift.min
* Remove redundant conformance in benchmarks
* Fix stupid typo I thought I'd already pushed
* XFAIL testing now-redundant conformance
* XFAIL an IDE test for now
It replaces String initializers taking Character or UnicodeScalar as a repeating value by a more general initializer that takes a String as a repeating value. This is done to avoid the ambiguities in the current String API, which can be only resolved by explicit casting.
String.append(_:UnicodeScalar) APIs is also removed to match these changes.
This documentation revision covers a large number of types & protocols:
String, its views and their indices, the Unicode codec types and protocol,
as well as Character, UnicodeScalar, and StaticString, among others.
This also includes a few small changes across the standard library for
consistency.
