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[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 12 November 2019 at 04:25:57 UTC, Doc Andrew wrote:
> so pre-conditions, as far as I can tell. This might be where 
> Walter is coming from in saying that Asserts and Assumes would 
> be the same in D. This is the only example I could find that 
> uses "assume" like this, but there may be others.

He meant that asserts are turned into assumes as an optimization. 
He has explained his position before in an older thread. It kinda 
might work in some settings if you can limit the assumed facts to 
a single function, but that is not how LLVM works. So it could 
work in dmd, but a bit dangerous. It would be a disaster in the 
two other D compilers.

Microsoft c++ uses __assume for giving facts to the optimizer. D 
should stick with that,