status of D optimizers benefiting from contracts ?

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn]

H. S. Teoh:

> Walter *did* mention recently that he was planning to 
> eventually take
> advantage of information in assert()'s as optimizer hints. Not 
> sure when
> this will happen, though, but it seems inevitable at some point.

And it caused a storm, because it's an awfully bad idea.

Bye,
bearophile