[dibanez]

Its useful to be able to remove safety checks for speed. I have a C++ code where all data is in array objects. Bounds checking is a compile time option, and it makes the overall code 2X slower. I can do testing with bounds checking on, but once it gets to a supercomputer that needs to be removed. Address sanitizing by compilers is an even more effective tool for this, especially for C. Bounds checking is critical for security, but if you're only concerned with correct execution then a segfault is not much different from an exception.