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It helps compilation. By a lot (130s -> 5s).

A bunch of blocking issues I'm not yet sure how to address:

1. If in interactive session, we use shared amap, thus there will potentially be a lot of false-positive cache hits.
2. In tooling scenario, we potentially have a lot of false-positive cache hits:

   type A implements interface IA, we cache it.
   interface IA is removed from the type A, it's still in the cache.
   Any check will pass for "is A an IA".

For 1st, we can technically clean the cache on each FSI submission.

For 2nd - I am not sure what to do, since we fill in the cache on-demand. Pre-filling it will be costly and will slowdown every single compilation and check. Checking interfaces on any cache hit will neglect this optimization.

One of the solutions might be to only enable it for compilation.

I agree this is not a large change.
I think performance is one of most important elements of user experience. Every improvement here is incredibly valuable.

As for testing this, one idea is to enable this for all compilation scenarios, not just one off. More chance to spot regressions if the whole existing test suite uses this code, not just a subset.

I agree this is not a large change.

I think performance is one of most important elements of user experience. Every improvement here is incredibly valuable.

As for testing this, one idea is to enable this for all compilation scenarios, not just one off. More chance to spot regressions if the whole existing test suite uses this code, not just a subset.

Can't enable for one reason - we don't have a good solution for the caching in compiler, which has eviction and statistics built in. In the service scenarios, dictionary will just grow forever, since (almost) any change to the type will introduce a new instance of TType and will cache it.

I think we build product compiler and some of suites with preview version, so it has some coverage.

I also tested it on the original OpenTK solution

I added a few remarks for myself as I plan to (later) finish this impl.

I addressed a couple of them. I still think that it's tested enough (as good as we can), plus is hidden under flags (language and tooling), and think that we can merged it as is, it's better to test it this early than try and plan "better" solution. But then again, if there's any pushback, happy to hear a better plan/solution to it.