Unless the highly-optimized parts are wrapped by an interface that looks similar to the non-optimized version.
In the case of a tagged object in Rust, depending on how well the compiler can wrangle through it, you might even be able to add a `.unpack()` method that returns a pretty enum from a packed value, that you can pattern-match on or whatever, and let the compiler remove all the code of unpacking unused cases.
(using that directly for the addition example would end up less efficient of course, but still most likely beneficial. It's after this when there's a potential true readability vs performance tradeoff)
In the case of a tagged object in Rust, depending on how well the compiler can wrangle through it, you might even be able to add a `.unpack()` method that returns a pretty enum from a packed value, that you can pattern-match on or whatever, and let the compiler remove all the code of unpacking unused cases.
(using that directly for the addition example would end up less efficient of course, but still most likely beneficial. It's after this when there's a potential true readability vs performance tradeoff)