[TUHS] To NDEBUG or not to NDEBUG, that is the question

[Arnold Robbins via TUHS]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my thoughts on NDEBUG.

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Aharon Robbins via TUHS wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > However, I'm starting to wonder.  Are my habits from yesteryear 
> > (defining NDEBUG by default) getting in the way of my being able (or 
> > users being able) to find bugs and report them?  Should I remove the 
> > defining of NDEBUG from the default build?  In particular, given the 
> > many orders of magnitude increase in CPU and memory of modern systems, 
> > is it likely that assertions won't really affect performance all that 
> > much?

Dave Horsfall via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> At the very least you should fix the defect that's causing the assertion
> to fail, no?  They're there for a reason...
>
> -- Dave

Fixing the defect goes without saying. That's been done.

I've decided to enable assertions in the next release, although I
do plan to review the code to see where I have them and to do a
little performance testing.

Thanks again,

Arnold