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The non-
strictversions also panic by default, but only in debug mode. So if you were willing to useabs()you should be willing to usestrict_abs().Arguably a bit of a mistake to have the "obvious" function names be surprisingly unsafe, but I guess it's too late to fix that.
I think this is where safety and performance are actually in conflict.
I think guaranteeing a panic leads to much worse code gen in this case.
Yes that's true, but the point is you should have to opt in to surprising or risky behaviour.