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masklinn on Sept 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust a...

Possibly because Swift being more of an application language, Swift codebases in general have very little use for overflowing operations?

sanxiyn on Sept 20, 2019 [–]

No, it's not that. All Swift arithmetic compiles to overflow intrinsics.

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