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I think the opposite is true, most software projects benefit from safety and not performance

• throwaway81523 4y ago
  Most programs should be written in HLL's with unbounded integers and garbage collection. There are a few programs that need machine arithmetic and manual memory management, for performance or whatever reasons, and Rust is intended to allow writing those programs safely. So it seems like a mistake to not treat int overflow as a serious error. Idk if branch prediction or whatever would have to be involved. Most architectures will already trap on divide by zero or things like that, and will set a condition code for int overflow. Making the condition code sticky like it is for IEEE floating point arithmetic would allow doing a software trap once a basic block finished. It is a shame that the current trendy architecture (Risc-V) goes the opposite way and has no condition codes at all.