On: You can’t “turn off the borrow checker” in Rust

[majewsky]

I think modern C++ compilers are smart enough to eliminate the bounds check if they can prove that it never fails.

[steveklabnik → majewsky]

Yup, Rust will too.

[saghm → majewsky]

I mainly do it this way to reduce the chance of my code panicking, not specifically for any performance reasons.