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on 13/12/2012 08:49 Adrian Chadd said the following:
> Let me restate it again.
> 
> We can ship a STABLE kernel with INVARIANTS enabled, and it not be any
> less stable than the STABLE kernel is today.

STABLE != stable, of course.
And it will be much much slower, so no one (of the regular users) would use it.

It seems like you are missing a point of KASSERT a little bit, the part why it
is a compile-time option and not a run-time thing.

-- 
Andriy Gapon