On 28 Mar 2014, at 05:56, Patrick Walton <pcwal...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > I think that Rust should give you the ability to opt out of safety, but on a > per-operation basis. Having it as a compiler option is too much of a > sledgehammer: often you want some non-performance-critical bounds to be > checked in the name of safety, while you want some bounds checks to be turned > off.
One other argument I can give for a "sledgehammer" feature like this is that it can be used as a marketing tool against people who are worried about performance. You can say to those people: "Look, if, at the end of the day, you decide that you'd rather take raw speed over safety, then there's this compiler flag you can use to disable all runtime memory safety checking in your code and get performance on par with C++". _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
