Re: Disabling string evaluation in a logging system

[tmoran@acm.org]

> In a language like C or C++, I would use the preprocessor:
> #define LOG(text, level) if (level > 0) { log.write (text, level) }
   So write your own specialized preprocessor that adds the "if"
statement to calls on log.write before handing the result to the compiler.

> I'd like to avoid the string evaluation if the logging is disabled
> (because it consumes CPU resources).
  As usual with "optimizations", the first question is "will this
obfuscation actually save significant time?".  If the answer,
surprisingly, is "yes", then find the few places where log.write
is actually called millions of times and manually insert the "if"
test in those places.