It's good to talk about, but not every article on performance needs to be prefaced with a talk about security. Being aware of the performance costs of your tool

It's good to talk about, but not every article on performance needs to be prefaced with a talk about security. Being aware of the performance costs of your tools is just as important in many cases. Besides, if we're talking about language design and compiler optimizations, there are plenty of ways to check overflow without resorting to a branch on every arithmetic operation.