Slava Pestov d22b3a7b0b Sema: Move the Optional-typed nil peephole to SILGen ...

When applying a solution to a nil literal of Optional type, we would
build a direct reference to Optional<T>.none instead of leaving the
NilLiteralExpr in place, because this would generate more efficient
SIL that avoided the call to the Optional(nilLiteral: ()) witness.

However, a few places in the type checker build type-checked AST, and
they build NilLiteralExpr directly. Moving the peephole to SILGen's
lowering of NilLiteralExpr allows us to simplify generated SIL even
further by eliding an unnecessary metatype value. Furthermore, it
allows SILGen to accept NilLiteralExprs that do not have a
ConcreteDeclRef set, which makes type-checked AST easier to build.

2019-05-13 17:25:49 -04:00

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