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Most programming languages are not expressive enough to reliably eliminate redundant overflow checks (or overflows); afaik doing so in general way requires some

• jiggawatts 4y ago
  In which case the compiler will emit the overflow or bounds checks, which is fine. If the developer is certain that a specific add operation should use unchecked add for performance, then they can override the behaviour as a spot micro-optimisation. That then becomes a "self documenting" thing, easily found by a simple keyword search. To give you an idea of just how rarely this is actually needed or done, there are less than a thousand uses of "unchecked_add()" in all of the Rust code on GitHub! https://github.com/search?q=.unchecked_add%28+language%3ARust&type=code&l=Rust https://github.com/search?q=.unchecked_add%28+language%3ARus...