
26 Apr
2005
26 Apr
'05
10:55 a.m.
Patrick Bennett writes:
Having worked on quite a few large-scale commercial software products using an extensive logging framework for quite a few years now, I can attest that, short of embedded deployment, there is almost never a reason to compile out tracing code.
Except for, when the tracing code comes with serious performance penalties. Then you really want to be able to compile a version with all the debugging and tracing statements removed. Peter