[ gpsdrive ] WITH_MYDEBUG

[Hamish]

Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Heck, even Wordstar on my PC/XT started up faster as Open Office
> on my Dual Core Athlon64 currently does.

to compare apples with apples, try:
# apt-get install joe
$ joe

it loads rather fast and reminds you of ^K^Q reflexes you probably
thought that you'd forgotten.

:)


> OK, enough rant, now to the issue at hand: AFAICS, gpsdrive
> already uses a single, global variable and if () checks
> against it to enable/disable debugging. This should have
> minimal impact (on CPU usage) if the variable is set to 0.

minimal impact meaning a few micro-seconds difference..
(unless some other subtle interaction is going on)


Hamish