Re: Does Anyone Compile Aspell with -DNDEBUG?

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> 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.

Make that "should not", sorry.

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