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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions docs/SIL.rst
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Expand Up @@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ the Swift programming language. SIL accommodates the following use cases:
such as definitive initialization of variables and constructors, code
reachability, switch coverage.
- High-level optimization passes, including retain/release optimization,
dynamic method devirtualization, closure inlining, memory allocation promotion,
and generic function instantiation.
dynamic method devirtualization, closure inlining, promoting heap allocations
to stack allocations, promoting stack allocations to SSA registers, scalar
replacement of aggregates (splitting aggregate allocations into multiple
smaller allocations), and generic function instantiation.
- A stable distribution format that can be used to distribute "fragile"
inlineable or generic code with Swift library modules, to be optimized into
client binaries.
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