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May 5, 2021 at 22:06
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TIL that Rust's dbg! macro also works in release builds, so you can debug issues when you need the perf of a release build. This differs from debug_assert! which is ignored in release builds.

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Release 0.70.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
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