Benchmark

[jonthegeek]

I'm not sure whether this should be a vignette or just something in tests, but somewhere I should compare code with my checks to code without the checks, and to checks using checkmate and maybe things like vec_cast.

[jonthegeek]

to_int() adds about 20 microseconds for a length-1-million integer. SAME for length-10-million, which is good.
with_stabilize has to look at the values, so it added about 3 milliseconds for 10^6, almost 50 ms for 10^7.

Adding microseconds feels tolerable.

When coercion is necessary, it adds microseconds even for to_int(), but to be fair it's actually DOING something. It's almost identical to as.integer.

For these simple cases, ykwim is faster than checkmate!

[jonthegeek]

I will have to add this to the readme or an article or something eventually....

[jonthegeek]

Do this as an article.

Compare to as(), stopifnot(), and the various packages.

{stbl} will be slower than some of them, but it shouldn't be slower than what it takes to turn that thing into {stbl}, basically.