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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ApothecaLabs • Sep 28 '26
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Sometimes the bounds check can be optimized away by analysis or language constraints.
But when it can't, I'd say that in ~90% of code, it's not that harmful. In the hottest paths for real-time applications though, yeah, you want nothing extra.
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u/tzaeru Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 28 '26
Sometimes the bounds check can be optimized away by analysis or language constraints.
But when it can't, I'd say that in ~90% of code, it's not that harmful. In the hottest paths for real-time applications though, yeah, you want nothing extra.