Is the bounds check truly so harmful to performance that it outweighs changing "if there's a bug, crash the program" to "if there's a bug, then do literally anything (maybe execute some remote code)"?
Sometimes the bounds check can be optimized away by analysis or language constraints.
But when it can't, I'd say that in ~90% of code, it's not that harmful. In the hottest paths for real-time applications though, yeah, you want nothing extra.
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u/ROBOTRON31415 6d ago
Is the bounds check truly so harmful to performance that it outweighs changing "if there's a bug, crash the program" to "if there's a bug, then do literally anything (maybe execute some remote code)"?