[libcxx-commits] [libcxx] [libc++][hardening] Finish documenting hardening. (PR #92021)

Mark de Wever via libcxx-commits libcxx-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue May 14 10:58:05 PDT 2024


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@@ -29,8 +29,11 @@ modes are:
   rigour impacts performance more than fast mode: we recommend benchmarking to
   determine if that is acceptable for your program.
 - **Debug mode**, which enables all the available checks in the library,
-  including internal assertions, some of which might be very expensive. This
-  mode is intended to be used for testing, not in production.
+  including heuristic checks that might have significant performance overhead as
+  well as internal library assertions. This mode should be used in
+  non-production environments (such as test suites, CI, local development). We
+  don’t commit to a particular level of performance in this mode and it’s *not*
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mordante wrote:

I would start the text that it's not intended for production usage, that way the reader can skip this directly when looking for options suitable for production usage.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/92021


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