On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 09:00 +0000, Brian Bailey wrote:
> In article <20110321163550.gg4...@rjek.com>,
>    Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> 
> > Remove the -v flag.  That is what enables verbose logging.  Note that
> > this simply stops NetSurf formatting and emitting the log data.  It will
> > still involve checking "do I need to log this?"
> 
> Thanks, Rob. I also removed the -v flag, without putting an | anywhere.

Commenting out bits of the !Run file using | is pretty much guaranteed
to end in tears. Please don't do this. Additionally, disabling logging
totally defeats the point of us asking for log files when you report a
bug.

> NetSurf seemed to be entirely stable in both cases. As far as I could
> tell, there was no discernible, subjective change in time in loading and
> rendering files, in either case.

It would be; logging simply isn't a significant proportion of runtime.
NetSurf spends the vast majority of its time doing the things you'd
expect (namely, fetching and rendering web pages).

> I guess that I must accept that my machine /is/ rather slow. But, as I am
> retired I can make endless cups of tea whilst things happen. 8-)

I'm not sure you've told us what your machine is or what led you to
believe that turning off logging would help.


John.


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