On Thursday, 27 July 2017 at 17:43:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 05:33:22PM +0000, Adrian Matoga via
Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
Why can't we just make the compiler insert null checks in
@safe code?
Because not inserting null checks is a sacred cow we inherited
from the C/C++ days of POOP (premature optimization oriented
programming), and we are loathe to slaughter it. :-P We
should seriously take some measurements of this in a large D
project to determine whether or not inserting null checks
actually makes a significant difference in performance.
That's exactly what I thought.
