Time to move std.experimental.checkedint to std.checkedint ?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/31/21 3:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/31/2021 12:31 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> - Silicon will keep getting faster and cheaper with time
>>
>> - A 7% or a 14% or even a +100% slowdown is relatively insignificant 
>> considering the overall march of progress - Moore's law, but also 
>> other factors such as the average size and complexity of programs, 
>> which will also keep increasing as people expect software to do more 
>> things, which will drown out such "one-time" slowdowns as integer 
>> overflow checks
> 
> If you're running a data center, 1% translates to millions of dollars.

Factually true. Millions of dollars a year that is.

It's all about the clientele. There will always be companies that must 
get every bit of performance. Weka.IO must be fastest. If they were 
within 15% of the fastest, they'd be out of business.