Re: [Gnash-commit] gnash ChangeLog configure.ac

[Sandro Santilli]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:02:45AM +0200, Bastiaan Jacques wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> 
> >Log message:
> >             * configure.ac: add --enable-cassert (build with NDEBUG 
> >             defined by
> >               default)
> 
> What's the reason for defining NDEBUG by default?

Very expensive assertion checking in DisplayList invariant testing.
An alternative could be deining a PARANOIA level and only test invariant
when above a given threshold. You can see the effects of that invariant
testing on performance running this:
http://foo.keybit.net/~strk/projects/tempera/tempera.swf
(confront initialization time)

--strk;