Simen kjaeraas wrote: > BCS <n...@anon.com> wrote: >>> I think that for such situations you should ship a debug and release >>> version of the DLL. >>> This way you don't sacrifice performance when the user doesn't want to >>> be >>> held by the hand. >> >> Until you can show me a perf problem, I don't see any point in doing >> that. (OTOH, deep structure validation, or anything else slower than >> O(1), is another thing all together) > > Also, if you do have two different versions, I'll bet you ready money > someone will program only the release version, because "that's the > version the users will have", "the debug version is slow" or whatever > other inane excuse their minds are capable of coming up with. >
Naturally, debug is for debugging, not shipping. Instead one could make three versions: - debug - release - unsafe Or rather let the user compile unsafe themselves if you can distribute the source code. I am sure most inane users (like me) will choose release.
