The Android Runtime (ART) offers a nice memory safety feature when accessing the content of an array. The indices you use are automatically checked against the bounds of the array to prevent unsafe memory accesses. To achieve this, ART generates extra machine instructions to throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when the index is invalid. Here is a simple Kotlin example: 1fun scaleZ(values: FloatArray, scale: Float) = values[2] * scale After translation to arm64 assembly, we obtain the foll...
