- Introduce an UnownedSerialExecutor type into the concurrency library.
- Create a SerialExecutor protocol which allows an executor type to
change how it executes jobs.
- Add an unownedExecutor requirement to the Actor protocol.
- Change the ABI for ExecutorRef so that it stores a SerialExecutor
witness table pointer in the implementation field. This effectively
makes ExecutorRef an `unowned(unsafe) SerialExecutor`, except that
default actors are represented without a witness table pointer (just
a bit-pattern).
- Synthesize the unownedExecutor method for default actors (i.e. actors
that don't provide an unownedExecutor property).
- Make synthesized unownedExecutor properties `final`, and give them
a semantics attribute specifying that they're for default actors.
- Split `Builtin.buildSerialExecutorRef` into a few more precise
builtins. We're not using the main-actor one yet, though.
Pitch thread:
https://forums.swift.org/t/support-custom-executors-in-swift-concurrency/44425
Add a feature for this new attribute, and make sure we use the feature
guard for functions that use it, e.g., the new `async`.
Finishes rdar://76927008.
Extend the checks for marker protocols and rethrows protocols to ensure
that we #if out more code that relies on them in module interface
generation. This makes the _Concurrency module parseable by much older
compilers.
Fixes rdar://75291705.
Thanks to a great idea from Slava, simplify the printing of marker
protocols in Swift interfaces while maintaining backward compatibility.
For compilers that cannot handle marker protocols, print a typealias
to `Any` instead, which is a good stand-in for just about everything.
When generating a module interface, emit `#if` around any declarations
that are tied to specific, named language features. This allows module
interfaces to be processed by older Swift compilers that do not
support these newer features, such as async/await or actors.
The amount of effort required to correctly handle a new kind of
feature varies somewhat drastically based on the feature itself. The
"simple" case is where a particular declaration can only exist if a
feature is available. For example, and `async` declaration is fairly
easy to handle; a `@_marker` protocol's conformances are not.
Fixes rdar://73326633.
