Avoid re-compiling functions with specialized types

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suppose we have the following classes:

struct A; end
struct B; end
struct C{T}; x; end

function foo(c::C); c.x = 1; end

does invoking foo(C{A}()) and foo(C{B}()) still cause the compiler to generate two specialized functions, one for A and the other for B ? If so, is there any difference in writing foo(c::C) and foo(c::C{T)) where {T}, besides the obvious case when T is referred in the body of foo for whatever reason?

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yes. There is a @nospecialize macro to avoid specialization, but in general I do not think one wants to avoid that. There should be a very special reason for not wanting that specialization. (see here)

no

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