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Do you have a benchmark that measures this cost?

I'm pretty sure the cost of checking this in a static language where the tag enums range is known at compile-time is:

- 100x cheaper than cache-miss on a memory access

- and 10000x cheaper than IO which is often where those errors/results/maybe/exceptions issues arise.

I.e. irrelevant in most cases.



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