> Runtime arithmetic overflow checks have saved me many times. Knowing I have this safety net I can be cavalier about using smaller integer types. As a note to

> Runtime arithmetic overflow checks have saved me many times. Knowing I have this safety net I can be cavalier about using smaller integer types. As a note to others, arithmetic checks doesn't happen in release builds unless you used something like checked_add, add "debug-assertions = true" to [profile.release], or use -C overflow-checks flag with the compiler. https://github.com/nox/rust-rfcs/blob/master/text/1535-stable-overflow-checks.md https://github.com/nox/rust-rfcs/blob/master/text/1535-stabl...