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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/03
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Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> writes:
> > Java casts are always perfectly safe. Casts between object types are
> > akin to C++'s dynamic_cast<T>, in that they are type-checked at runtime
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Cultural questions: isn't it a redhibitory source of slowndowns ?! Is there
> a mean to make such type checking at compile time in Java ?...

What's "redhibitory"? Anyway, the compiler can elide a runtime check if
it can prove that the cast would always succeed.