Apologies for the lack of posts, full time work and family time among other things have been keeping me from finishing off Swift performance stuff. The new Swift 2.0 features look really good but again I haven't got stuck in yet. This is a quick post about an issue concerning me since I noticed it when reading Erica Sadun's post about assertions. I actually thought it couldn't be correct when I first read it so unexpected was it but when I checked the documentation it matched exactly what Erica said.
Assertions and Unchecked Builds
I use assertions for things that shouldn't happen but sometimes might. For example corrupt or unprocessable network data where I write code to safely handle the case but I also want to know instantly and start debugging the issue (whether it is in the app or the server). If you do the same and have assertions which could happen then you must not build in -Ounchecked (or in Swift 2.0 with Disable Safety Checks enabled) otherwise in the event of assertions not being true you will be in undefined behaviour.