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		pjmlp on Aug 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blue Team Rust: What Is “Memory Safety”, Really? Disabling bounds checking seems to still be a cargo cult thing. Even when using C++ I keep them enabled (via compiler options) and it is seldom a problem in the age of Electron apps fashion. Doing something in ms instead of us is hardly an issue for 99% of applications.

Animats on Aug 2, 2020 [–]

Right. It's mostly a thing in number-crunching code working on matrices and in some string operations. It's important to handle small inner loops well; other than that, it's seldom a big time issue.

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