It's like `Symbol` but for byte strings. The interner is now used for
both `Symbol` and `ByteSymbol`. E.g. if you intern `"dog"` and `b"dog"`
you'll get a `Symbol` and a `ByteSymbol` with the same index and the
characters will only be stored once.
The motivation for this is to eliminate the `Arc`s in `ast::LitKind`, to
make `ast::LitKind` impl `Copy`, and to avoid the need to arena-allocate
`ast::LitKind` in HIR. The latter change reduces peak memory by a
non-trivial amount on literal-heavy benchmarks such as `deep-vector` and
`tuple-stress`.
`Encoder`, `Decoder`, `SpanEncoder`, and `SpanDecoder` all get some
changes so that they can handle normal strings and byte strings.
This change does slow down compilation of programs that use
`include_bytes!` on large files, because the contents of those files are
now interned (hashed). This makes `include_bytes!` more similar to
`include_str!`, though `include_bytes!` contents still aren't escaped,
and hashing is still much cheaper than escaping.
- `Ident::from_str_and_span` -> `Ident::new` when the string is
pre-interned.
- `Ident::from_str` -> `Ident::with_dummy_span` when the string is
pre-interned.
- `_d` and `_e` are unused.
`hir::AssocItem` currently has a boolean `fn_has_self_parameter` field,
which is misplaced, because it's only relevant for associated fns, not
for associated consts or types. This commit moves it (and renames it) to
the `AssocKind::Fn` variant, where it belongs.
This requires introducing a new C-style enum, `AssocTag`, which is like
`AssocKind` but without the fields. This is because `AssocKind` values
are passed to various functions like `find_by_ident_and_kind` to
indicate what kind of associated item should be searched for, and having
to specify `has_self` isn't relevant there.
New methods:
- Predicates `AssocItem::is_fn` and `AssocItem::is_method`.
- `AssocItem::as_tag` which converts `AssocItem::kind` to `AssocTag`.
Removed `find_by_name_and_kinds`, which is unused.
`AssocItem::descr` can now distinguish between methods and associated
functions, which slightly improves some error messages.
It bugs me when variables of type `Ident` are called `name`. It leads to
silly things like `name.name`. `Ident` variables should be called
`ident`, and `name` should be used for variables of type `Symbol`.
This commit improves things by by doing `s/name/ident/` on a bunch of
`Ident` variables. Not all of them, but a decent chunk.
the behavior of the type system not only depends on the current
assumptions, but also the currentnphase of the compiler. This is
mostly necessary as we need to decide whether and how to reveal
opaque types. We track this via the `TypingMode`.
This allows allocating `Expr`s into a dropless arena, which is useful
for using length prefixed thing slices in HIR, since these can only be
allocated in the dropless arena and not in a typed arena. This is
something I'm working on.
