[pjmlp]

Oh, so much for VC++ folks being security conscious.

The performance hit from bounds checking was never an issue for most applications I have done in C++.

Why C++? WinDev likes it a lot, alongside COM, and not everything is exposed to .NET.

[int_19h]

Array bounds checking is plenty fast, it's the iterators specifically that are the problem. Unless your code is heavy on those, you wouldn't notice.

(OTOH for cases where you would notice, given the perf penalty, you might as well just write it in C# then.)