[webkit-dev] ASSERT vs. RELEASE_ASSERT

[Michael Catanzaro]

Hi,

Just brainstorming, but I generally think it's worth enabling way more 
assertions in production builds to the extent we can do so without 
unacceptable performance impact. My ideal would be to rename ASSERT() 
to SLOW_ASSERT() and then rename RELEASE_ASSERT() to ASSERT(), to make 
release asserts the "default" type of assert. But I'm not ambitious 
enough to attempt that. Notably, this would in many cases downgrade the 
severity of security bugs, since hitting a RELEASE_ASSERT() is at worst 
a denial of service issue. Curious what other WebKit developers think 
about this.

Michael