> Looking at that benchmark, marking a function as "static" was enough to make the bounds checks be optimised away. and that's nice when you can do this (or ap

> Looking at that benchmark, marking a function as "static" was enough to make the bounds checks be optimised away. and that's nice when you can do this (or apply LTO which would likely give the same result) - you definitely can't always do this. Think proprietary vendor selling a DLL containing some very specific DSP routines.