On: ISO C became unusable for operating systems develo...

[gavinhoward]

I agree 1-2% might be misleading, but Dr. John Regehr puts overflow checking overhead at 5%. [1]

I'll take 5% or even 10% for correctness because, again, fast and wrong is very bad.

[1]: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1154

[Joky → gavinhoward]

You may be interested by https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/