Void pointers

[Rene Zwanenburg via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 06:55:35 UTC, Alex wrote:
> with dmd test44.d -release
> the results are:

You may want to pass '-O -inline' as well. -O enables general 
optimizations, -inline enables function inlining.

-release is for disabling bounds checks, invariants, asserts..

The -debug and -release switches influence the language's 
behavior. -O and -inline are optimization switches and should not 
change the behavior of your program, codegen bugs aside ^^

Additionally, some people recommend never using -release. It 
depends on that type of program you're writing, but the 
performance gain is often not worth the loss in safety. Think of 
the number of exploits enabled by C's lack of bounds checking.