Dan Luu • 12/17/2014

Integer overflow checking cost

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This technical article investigates the performance cost of enabling integer overflow checks via compiler flags. It breaks down the potential overhead, estimating a worst-case 2x penalty per arithmetic operation, but concludes the real-world impact on overall application performance is minimal (around 3-5%) based on analysis and benchmarks of the bzip2 compression tool.

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