Re: Does Anyone Compile Aspell with -DNDEBUG?

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Peter Kümmel wrote:

> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Peter Kümmel wrote:
>> 
>>> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> If so stop.  Most asserts perform important safety checks and disabling 
>>>> them could lead to data corruption and other nasty things.  Also, they 
>>>> should have a negligible effect on performance.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure if this is correct, STL checks could be expensive even when
>>> optimizing the code.
>> 
>> Can you please show me proof of this.
>
> It is just a impression because I've never heard about such a strategy to
> ensure correctness. I only know, in debug mode msvc-stl-code is several
> times slower than in release mode, due to disabling optimizations and
> executing additional checks.
> But a proof would only be a aspell benchmark which I don't have.

Debug mode should be the same thing as compiling without defining NDEBUG.

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