Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> schrieb:

I'm all in favour of temporarily having checks for overflow (and other
errors) during debugging, but I am sceptical to having distinct
debug/release builds.  It encourages people to use debug builds during
development, bug hunting and testing, then when all looks good they
switch to release build and deploy it.  I prefer a single build, and
enable run-time checks on parts of it if and when necessary.

Wise man once said...

# It is absurd to make elaborate security checks on debugging runs,
# when no trust is put in the results, and then remove them in
# production runs, when an erroneous result could be expensive or
# disastrous. What would we think of a sailing enthusiast who wears
# his lifejacket when training on dry land, but takes it off as soon
# as he goes to sea?

(C.A.R. Hoare, in "Hints on Programming Language Desin)