shnatsel wrote a post on bounds checking performance implications in Rust. Money quote: > The real-world performance impact of bounds checks is surprisingly lo

shnatsel wrote a post on bounds checking performance implications in Rust. Money quote: > The real-world performance impact of bounds checks is surprisingly low. > The greatest impact I’ve ever seen on real-world code from removing bounds checks alone was *15%,* but the typical gains are in *1% to 3% range,* and even that only happens in code that does a lot of number crunching. > You can occasionally see greater impact (as we’ll see soon!) if removing bounds checks allows the compiler to perform other optimizations. > Still, performance of code that’s not doing large amounts of number crunching will probably [not be impacted by bounds checks](https://blog.readyset.io/bounds-checks/ https://blog.readyset.io/bounds-checks/) at all. It is, of course, not universally applicable, so read the post for full details: https://shnatsel.medium.com/how-to-avoid-bounds-checks-in-rust-without-unsafe-f65e618b4c1e https://shnatsel.medium.com/how-to-avoid-bounds-checks-in-ru...