Instead of appending a character for each substitution, we now prefix the substitution with the repeat count, e.g.
AbbbbB -> A5B
The same is done for known-type substitutions, e.g.
SiSiSi -> S3i
This significantly shrinks mangled names which contain large lists of the same type, like
func foo(_ x: (Int, Int, Int, Int, Int, Int, Int, Int, Int, Int, Int, Int))
rdar://problem/30707433
'Ss' appears in manglings tens of thousands of times in the standard library and is also incredibly frequent in other modules. This alone is enough to shrink the standard library by 59KB.
Swift SVN r32409
These classes don't show up well in generated headers (rdar://problem/20855568),
can't actually be allocated from Objective-C (rdar://problem/17184317), and
make the story of "what is exposed to Objective-C" more complicated. Better
to just disallow them.
All classes are still "id-compatible" in that they can be converted to
AnyObject and passed to Objective-C, they secretly implement NSObjectProtocol
(via our SwiftObject root class), and their members can still be individually
exposed to Objective-C.
The frontend flag -disable-objc-attr-requires-foundation-module will disable
this requirement as well, which is still necessary for both the standard
library and a variety of tests I didn't feel like transforming.
Swift SVN r29760
