Array bound checks removal increasing importance

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 09:46:03 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> There are papers that show a 20-100% improvement in performance 
> coming from disabling array bound checks in programs that use 
> arrays a lot, like most scientific programs. And D language 
> seems fit for some heavy numerical work.

Scientific programs usually process trusted data (or easily 
validated), so they may need correctness checks, but don't need 
security checks. If you see the algorithm works with bound 
checks, you can turn them off.