> As was pointed out earlier with Mozilla source code, integer overflows > "do not happen". Probably because, in security-conscious code, you are > supposed to validate your inputs for your actual expected range, and > when you do, built-in overflow checks are just unnecessary overhead.
If you're referring to Robert's comments, then I read them exactly the opposite way. He did mention that overflow to BigInts wasn't needed, but he is on the wants checked math side. I agree that this is a tradeoff, and that there is probably some performance loss at which it doesn't make sense. Until we have data on how expensive such a feature is, we can't make much progress in that particular debate. I just wanted to note my preference for having it default to on if it didn't cost too much, whatever "cost too much" might mean :) jack. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
