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Comment by CorrectHorseBat

> I heard we are still waiting for the cost of performing those checks to be "reasonable" before thinking about making such a change.

What I don't understand is, checking for integer overflow is extremely cheap in hardware, so why is there any cost for performing those checks? What am I missing?

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