[Adium-devl] "Debug logger" plugin

[Augie Fackler]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AdiumMeetings/2007-02-08 :
> Mac-arena suggested a plug-in to enable the debug logger, which  
> would always be present but simply turned off in release builds (as  
> opposed to not there). And it can have a nag screen, so the user  
> doesn't forget about it and so it doesn't get misused for evil  
> purposes.
>
> At present, debug logging is perfectly free in release builds, no  
> matter how expensive the process of building the debug log.  For  
> example:
> AILog(@"The results at this point would be %@",[self  
> lengthyResultsCalculation]);
>
> causes a performance hit in deployment-debug but is replaced by
> /* */
> in deployment - free!
>
> To make a plugin as described possible, I believe a runtime check  
> of each passed debug string would be necessary.
>
> I would come down on the side of having a debug build for each  
> release available -- preferably created automatically by the  
> release makefile -- because 99% of users will never want debug  
> logging, and that way we don't cause a slowdown for that vast  
> majority.

I concur - having all the debug cruft in there to slow down average  
users seems rather pointless...

>
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