[jdom-interest] Still more Verification

[Tako Schotanus]

And in what way would it be made "difficult"?
Because I sure as hell wouldn't like it if I would be forced to use slower code just because to force correctness on lazy programmers.
And the fastest code should be just as easy to use in my opinion.

> At 9:43 AM +0200 8/23/00, Oliver Imbusch wrote:
> >>>>>> "jh" == Jason Hunter <jhunter at collab.net> writes:
> >
> >Hi,
> 
> >    jh> But how would one differentiate between the two?
> >
> >public void setValue (String value, boolean check) {
> >    if (check) {
> >        String reason = Verifier.checkCharacterData (value);
> >        if (reason != null) {
> >            throw new IllegalDataException (value, reason);
> >        }
> >    }
> >    this.value = value;
> >}
> >
> 
> I really don't like this option. It lets programmers who don't 
> understand what they're doing sacrifice program correctness in the 
> name of the false god performance. In my experience, programmers are 
> way too quick to make pointless optimizations and way too slow to 
> make sure their code actually does what it's supposed to do. We 
> should make it as hard as possible to do the wrong thing and as easy 
> as possible to do the right thing.
> 
> May I ask why you turned off the verification code? What was the 
> program? What performance measurements showed you that this was the 
> bottleneck in your code? How much speed did you gain by disabling the 
> verification?
> 
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