[foxhill]

it probably shouldn’t be a “release” thing. actually, certainly. i do wonder how many bugs would never have seen the light of day, if someone’s “set” actually turned out to be a sequence (i.e. allowed duplicate values) resulting in a debug build raising an assert.

[Arainach]

Debug builds are worthless for catching issues. How many people actually run them? Perhaps developers run debug builds of individual binaries they're working on when they're trying to repro a bug, but my experience at every company of every size and position in the stack (including the Windows team) is that no one does their general purpose use on a debug build.

[dontlaugh]

Especially in games, it’s common for only the highly optimised release builds to have playable performance.

[frollogaston]

Yeah, even their integration tests will probably run in opt mode.