Max Samukha wrote:
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:27:55 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
Max Samukha wrote:
If you intruduce a dummy type, why not make it perform validation in a
debug build when sumthing like debug=slowButSafe is set?
Because in the case of binarySearch slowButSafe quickly becomes
slowAndUseless. It's happened to me - I had an assert(isSorted) in
binary search (I guess it's in one of the older phobos releases!) and
when I was using the debug version, my program would take forever to run.
A debug build should at most change the constant multiplying the
complexity, not the complexity.
Andrei
I intentionaly proposed a special debug mode, not regular asserts,
which are on in any debug build. I would like, knowing that I can wait
a couple of days to make sure my program is correct, to be able to
turn on validation.
I am waiting a couple of days in release mode with all optimizations
turned on and wind from behind.
Andrei
