Re: always log all URLs?

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> You see, LOGGING_MAX is the mechanism that causes the logging instructions
>> that are not enabled to be compiled out -- in that way, the values that
>> are printed are not even evaluated.  Setting LOGGING_MAX to 0xFF causes
>> all of this code to be included, and Polipo's performance to be reduced.

> Not, I suspect, to any detectable degree, on modern hardware.

While that's not unlikely, it's quite besides the point.  Polipo is
a horribly over-optimised piece of software, and I happen to like it
this way.

Think of Polipo as a political statement against Pike's rules of program
optimization [1].

>> Oh, that's another issue -- I don't want to make it easy for stupid
>> admins to spy on their users.

> Now *that's* a good reason :)

Heh.

                                        Juliusz

[1] Rule 1: Don't do it.
    Rule 2: Don't do it yet.

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