&gt; In practice, for anything which isn&#x27;t a micro-benchmark, it&#x27;s a negligible performance hit.<p>Citation needed? Every paper I&#x27;ve seen has indicated a non-negligible performance hit in real apps.<p>&gt; I see a strong correlation between people complaining about overflow checking overhead, and people who don&#x27;t actually care about the safety features<p>I&#x27;m a counterexample.