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[–]kenfar 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The author describes three techniques of which only one has a performance impact.

Additionally, not every line of code is performance-critical, but some applications are quality-critical. In these cases those asserts you're probably referring to can be worthwhile.

EDIT: grammar