On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:33 PM Ben Grasset <operato...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Encouraging typecasting (which cares only about the sizes of the types > involved, nothing else) at the programmer level is far more error-prone in > a variety of ways. > Also: it's slower in many cases, because it tends to involve "if" statements that *remain* as if statements in the final generated assembly code, whereas a static check would allow for simply generating *only* the code for the path that's actually taken.
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