On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 02:51:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Adding in software checks for null pointers will dramatically slow things down.
What about the debug/release difference? Isn't the point of debug mode to allow checks such as assert, RangeError, etc? "Segmentation fault: 11" prevents memory from corrupting, but it isn't helpful in locating a bug.
