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Thank you for clarifying that.

Are there estimates on the performance improvement people can expect with the bounds checks elided and the capability bounds used instead?

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Not really, because it gets traded off with the increased memory pressure due to the larger pointer size, and it'd likely be workload dependent. It's not something we've explored to date beyond hypothesising that it could be a good thing.

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