swift-0001: QualifiedLookupRequest::evaluate (NameLookup.cpp:2860) pushes
protocol superclassDecl onto BFS stack unconditionally — visited.insert()
return not checked. Nearby ClassDecl arm (line 2833) is correctly guarded.
Diamond protocol hierarchies sharing a class superclass trigger O(2^D)
re-traversal on every qualified member lookup. Fix: check .second.
llvm, gcc, webkit: CLEAN in available sparse-clone code.
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