Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Dec 18 2025 at 17:24): Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Dec 18 2025 at 17:24):fitzgen closed issue #1072:
Hi, I'm thinking about writing a replacement for swiftc's backend that would translate from Swift Intermediate Language (SIL) to Cranelift IR and then let Cranelift do the codegen. My overall goal is to have a faster debug mode compiler for Swift. I was curious, what sort of performance speedups might I see? Are there any up-to-date benchmarks? In general, could this be a worthwhile project?
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Dec 18 2025 at 17:24):fitzgen commented on issue #1072:
Closing this issue. It is old and out of date, but also very general / just a question. Nothing to track for the Cranelift team itself. Still sounds like a neat (external) project if someone was motivated though!
Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Dec 18 2025 at 20:17):bjorn3 commented on issue #1072:
It would need a Cranelift change to support the Swift calling convention if someone were to try doing this in the future.
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