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minus-squarenogooduser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI used to work on an old DOS product and we didn’t have a debugger so we used to have a DEBUG command line argument with if (DEBUG) printf(“debugging”); to try to see what was happening and the number of times that code alone fixed the problem was scary.
minus-squarepsycho_driver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agoI mean . . . I still do this on my own stuff. If I’m interested in optimizing for speed I’ll do it as #ifdef instead of if ()
I used to work on an old DOS product and we didn’t have a debugger so we used to have a DEBUG command line argument with
if (DEBUG) printf(“debugging”);to try to see what was happening and the number of times that code alone fixed the problem was scary.
I mean . . . I still do this on my own stuff. If I’m interested in optimizing for speed I’ll do it as #ifdef instead of if ()