Bounds checking feels to me like low hanging fruit for a processor designer. A low cost operation that can run in parallel or tossed away as the steam from the

Bounds checking feels to me like low hanging fruit for a processor designer. A low cost operation that can run in parallel or tossed away as the steam from the instruction decoder gets optimized and scheduled. Meanwhile the guys on the standards committee thinks of fixed width RISC instructions being executed by jungle logic and the ALU.