Re: assertions: does it matter that they are disabled in production?
marlow.andrew@googlemail.com () wrote (abridged):
Assertions [...] Am I the only one that does this? Surely not.
My reasoning is that I always want the checks on, just in
case. This means it is something I tend to do sparingly, after all,
loads of them might well create a performance issue.
To me that sounds as though you have painted yourself into a corner. You
can't afford many assertions in release builds because of the performance
penalty, and your reasoning says that they should not be enabled in debug
unless they are also enabled in release, and so you don't use them much
in debug builds, even though they would benefit you there and the
performance doesn't matter.
My view is that assertions should be used so extensively that they /are/
expensive. And therefore should be disabled in release builds. If they
aren't too expensive to leave on in release builds, you aren't yet
checking enough stuff.
-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.
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