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Btw : there is a better solution to generics as well at compiler-level, that is used in things like the CLR. First, generate unboxed versions of functions where that makes sense. If specializations are possible for 1-bit, 1-byte, 2-byte, 4-byte and 8-byte primitive data types, expand those. Then for anything bigger, like structs, create a boxed implementation, because for structs there is no longer any advantage to working unboxed. Then make it possible to pass in the version to be used in a parameter, so you don't have a combinatorial explosion when many type parameters are given.

That sounds sensible.

I'd like to figure out a way to extend the concept of interfaces to cover use cases like generic containers, but I'm not quite sure how that would work.