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2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Implementing Swift Generics ”
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Swift compiler engineers explain how Swift implements generics using dictionary-passing with reified type metadata. They compare it with Java-style uniform representation and C++ or Rust monomorphization.
Recommended as the clearest explanation of how Swift generics compile and how that differs from other languages.
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