Warp wrote:
>   I have really hard time believing that if you, for example, calculate
> the sum of all the integers in an array, adding boundary checks to every
> single read operation will add only 4% of overhead.

The compiler can be pretty smart. You can actually optimize out the 
bounds checking most of the time.

int x[50]; int y;
for (i = 0; i < 50; i++) x[i] = i;
for (i = 0; i < 50; i++) y += x[i];

That won't have any bounds-checking code included.

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