Newbie to rust, but surely there must be a way to disable bounds checking in rust, right?? Like C++ std::vector has operator() (bounds checked) and operator[] (pointer dereference, unsafe), or other languages have get/unsafe_get (ocaml), surely rust has a way to disable bounds checking as well (or disables it for optimised builds)
> Newbie to rust, but surely there must be a way to disable bounds checking in rust, right??
There's an unsafe method to not do bounds-checking, keeping in mind that indexing outside the collection is UB. It's usually a better idea to e.g. use iterators, or try and nudge the optimiser towards removing the bounds checks.
> disables it for optimised builds
A compiler flag to add UBs to a valid (though not correct) program is not considered a great idea by the rust team.
As a design choice, Rust prefers not to change the semantics of methods depending on the context, but instead to expose different methods. Arrays offer get_unchecked and get_unchecked_mut methods, which can only be called inside unsafe blocks.
The one exception I'm aware of is that integer overflow panics in debug builds, and silently wraps in release builds. But in most other cases, there will be different separate methods with different semantics, requiring an unsafe context as appropriate.
