The witnesses in a NormalProtocolConformance have never been
completely serialized, because their substitutions involved a weird
mix of archetypes that blew up the deserialization code. So, only the
witness declarations themselves got serialized. Many clients (the type
checker, SourceKit, etc.) didn't need the extra information, but some
clients (e.g., the SIL optimizers) would end up recomputing this
information. Ick.
Now, serialize the complete Witness structure along with the AST,
including information about the synthetic environment, complete
substitutions, etc. This should obsolete some redundant code paths in
the SIL optimization infrastructure.
This (de-)serialization code takes a new-ish approach to serializing
the synthetic environment in that it avoids serializing any
archetypes. Rather, it maps everything back to interface types during
serialization, and deserialization forms a new generic environment
(with new archetypes!) on-the-fly, mapping deserialized types back
into that environment (and to those archetypes). This way, we don't
have to maintain identity of archetypes in the deserialization code,
and might get some better re-use of the archetypes.
More of rdar://problem/24079818.
Reimplement the witness matching logic used for generic requirements
so that it properly models the expectations required of the witness,
then captures the results in the AST. The new approach has a number of
advantages over the existing hacks:
* The constraint solver no longer requires hacks to try to tangle
together the innermost archetypes from the requirement with the
outer archetypes of the context of the protocol
conformance. Instead, we create a synthetic set of archetypes that
describes the requirement as it should be matched against
witnesses. This eliminates the infamous 'SelfTypeVar' hack.
* The type checker no longer records substitutions involving a weird
mix of archetypes from different contexts (see above), so it's
actually plausible to reason about the substitutions of a witness. A
new `Witness` class contains the declaration, substitutions, and all
other information required to interpret the witness.
* SILGen now uses the substitution information for witnesses when
building witness thunks, rather than computing all of it from
scratch. ``substSelfTypeIntoProtocolRequirementType()` is now gone
(absorbed into the type checker, and improved from there), and the
witness-thunk emission code is simpler. A few other bits of SILGen
got simpler because the substitutions can now be trusted.
* Witness matching and thunk generation involving generic requirements
and nested generics now works, based on some work @slavapestov was
already doing in this area.
* The AST verifier can now verify the archetypes that occur in witness substitutions.
* Although it's not in this commit, the `Witness` structure is
suitable for complete (de-)serialization, unlike the weird mix of
archetypes previously present.
Fixes rdar://problem/24079818 and cleans up an area that's been messy
and poorly understood for a very, very long time.
