[Shootout-list] Safety vs. speed

[Brent Fulgham]

On 2004-09-21 23:24:24 -0700 Isaac Gouy <igouy2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm mildly curious what the performance would be like on some test 
> with
> run-time checks enabled. Checking anything at runtime is, of course, a
> performance issue - which is why some languages refuse to countenance
> such a thing :-)

I would find this interesting to know as well.

> Can we address this as a performance issue rather than getting into 
> the
> safety thang?

Yes -- it sounds reasonable, though the build framework would have to 
be
expanded to handle the two cases.

-Brent