[GNUe-dev] Changing gDebug()

[James Thompson]

I was thinking about gDebug calls tonight (I'm sick like that :)

If we were to alter our gDebug() calls to *always* return a value of True.

Then in our code instead of doing 

gDebug(15,"hi")

we do 

assert gDebug(15,"hi")

When optimization is requested (python -O) assert statements are left out of 
the generated code.  So we would regain all the time lost to those function 
calls.  We would also be able to put gDebug calls in places where we've 
removed them in the past to increase performance.

A quick test with a hacked forms show this works.

What do people think?

Take Care,
James