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On 8/16/2011 2:56 PM, Seebs wrote:

> I wonder whether there's a way to mitigate the cost of these things by
> messing with -W settings, such that runtime that wants to be fast can
> omit the checks, but the default could still be to, well, prevent likely
> errors.

Warning messages have a cost even if suppressed.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy