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		glacia01 on Nov 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped usi... >Just look at the performance costs of bounds-checking array access in C++ code. If your compiler can prove you dont need bounds-checking it will remove the check and the performance would be the same. Hence, if your program has been proven to have no runtime errors you dont need them.

jcelerier on Nov 8, 2022 [–]

> If your compiler can prove you dont need bounds-checking it will remove the check and the performance would be the same

and in practice that is a very big "if"

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