> Steven M. Bellovin writes:
> 
>> Hoare had a line on that, too, from around 1983 -- he likened such 
>> behavior to sailors practicing ashore with life jackets, but leaving 
>> them home when they went to sea.  
> 
> 
> Understood.  With all the comments about ssh already being slow I
> figured anything that added another 2x slowdown (and bloat) to the
> code would raise a few eyebrows.

Bounds checking overhead (well at least for reasonable languages and 
good compilers :-) is less than 2x.  I'm scraping the bottom of my 
memory bank but I believe it is more like 10%.

enjoy,
Andrew