Re: eliminating array bounds checking overhead

    jprice@scdt.intel.com (Jeff Price) wrote:


> Mainsail, from Xidak, Inc. does all three.
>
> >Does any language or any machine provide some mechanism to:
> >
> >1. index an array without checking its bounds
> >2. throw an exception if the index was actually out of range
> >3. allow the programmer to catch and handle the exception rather than
> > terminate the program
>


I just went through the Mainsail language reference manual and it does
the above 3 things. However, is the run-time array bound checking
mechanism of Mainsail faster than two less-than tests?


Thanks.


-- Mayur Naik

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