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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel
Date: 2000/07/14
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I don't believe the run-time efficiency per se is the most compelling
disadvantage for DbC. As Joachim notes, you can always turn it off.

However, turning off the run-time check (or turning it on for part of the
development process, then turning it off for delivery) does have some
adverse consequences, as I note in my paper. It certainly isn't "free" in
the context of Ariane 5.