I haven&#x27;t seen any cases in which adding a global build flag to turn off bounds checks would actually improve performance. People overfocus on bounds checks because they&#x27;re an easy thing to understand, but they&#x27;re just one of many performance issues when creating a new language, and not a particularly interesting one at that since APIs, compiler optimizations, and branch predictors all conspire to drive their overhead down to near-zero (in my experience).