Dmitry Olshansky:
Who are those people that are not disabling bounds checks in
system language ? :)
If you show D code on Reddit and you show to compile with
-noboundscheck you hear some people growl. I don't remember this
happening much in past. So I think the attitude toward disabling
bound checks is changing.
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Once some more logic for bound checks removal is in D, it can
even be added a @bounded expression attribute:
foreach (immutable i; 0 .. a.length)
a[@bounded i]++;
@bounded {
foreach (immutable i; 0 .. a.length)
a[@bounded i]++;
}
The purpose of @bounded is just to give a compile-time error if
the compiler is not able to remove one (or more if used with the
{} syntax) array bound check.
Bye,
bearophile
