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stephenmw
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Maybe I don’t know enough about memory allocation, but it seems to me that a language like Rust or Go would not create a new allocation for every vector or slice. They also wouldn’t want you loading unintended zero-initialized data or “rubble”. This means that bounds checking instructions would still be necessary for all accesses.

Also, what is to stop arr[LARGE_NUM] from accessing memory that is in your turf but from another allocation? Would load(base, index, …) not allow index to be outside the allocation for base? That would be cool, although I am not sure I can come up with a practical use for it. Maybe the allocator itself can use that for when it gives out memory.

In the end, you are going to need to bounds check but a single comparison of index vs len and a pick should be cheap enough to squeeze into most situation without increasing cycle count.