• Gary Willoughby (6/6) Apr 09 2014 According to this issue:
• monarch_dodra (19/25) Apr 09 2014 release means:

"Gary Willoughby" <dev nomad.so> writes:

According to this issue: 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12550

-release disables bounds checking on non- safe code? Is this 
correct?

If the above is true and apart from removing asserts what else 
does -release do?

"monarch_dodra" <monarchdodra gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 9 April 2014 at 08:22:20 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
 According to this issue: 
 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12550

 -release disables bounds checking on non- safe code? Is this 
 correct?

Correct.

 If the above is true and apart from removing asserts what else 
 does -release do?

release means:
assert/preconditions/invariants are stripped from everything.
bounds checking in  system [*] code is removed.

That's it. (AFAIK). It doesn't actually optimize your code or 
anything.

The option "-noboundscheck" can be used to deactivate bounds 
checking altogether, in either  safe code, or simply all code in 
non-release.

[*] An interesting "hack" is that  trusted code is considered 
"system code that can be used in safe code".

As such, if you need safe code that runs fast, you can mark it as 
 trusted instead. This will deactivate *its* bounds checking, 
without affecting the otherwise global bounds checking 
configurations.

There's another hack to mark your code as trusted, and use 
"slice.ptr[index]" to bypass bounds checking altogether. Use with 
caution :D !