My favorite analogy for “only debug builds check this” is wearing a floatation device at the dock but throwing it overboard to sail into a storm. Quiet overflo

My favorite analogy for “only debug builds check this” is wearing a floatation device at the dock but throwing it overboard to sail into a storm. Quiet overflow was sort of defensible on 4 MHz machines, but now Costco has desktops with a dozen cores each a thousand times faster. Moore’s law has more than paid for bounds checking and overflow exceptions (or even bignums) and we should be using them by default.