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From: dhenry <tfc.duke@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Disabling string evaluation in a logging system
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Thank you for all your replies.

As Dmitry said, the log level may dynamically change. Therefore,
inlining in order to let the compiler do the optimization doesn't
work.

Neither is the "Tricky" procedure tip. The example I gave with a
"parameter name" stored in an unbounded string was just an
illustration of a complex string to log. But of course, it could be
any variable and of any type, for a lot of different sentences, so I
can't write a new procedure each time (I'd prefer writing the if-test
each time).

There may be no solution as I'd like. I'll prefer to let the
application perform a lot of useless string conversion and
concatenations rather have an optimized but heavy to use logging
system. (For the moment, I don't have serious performance issues so
that I would need to reduce those useless string operations).