JanC: > In most "modern" Pascal dialects the overflow checks can be (locally) > enabled or disabled with compiler directives in the source code,
I think that was possible in somewhat older versions of Pascal-like languages too (like old Delphi versions, and maybe TurboPascals too). >so the "speed issue" is not a real issue in practice...< How can I help Walter (the designer and writer of the D language) understand this? Do you have articles or other ways that support this point of view? Patching the D compiler to re-run programs and benchmarks with such controls present isn't something I can do yet, probably :o) (Despite there's a LLVM-based D compiler too now, named LDC, and it already supports the LLVM intrinsics to perform overflow checks). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
