Greetings earcam,

One of the things we did was to use a constant (or a bitwise and set of constants) inside a right-side if conditional for whether we had debug statements work. The compiler optimizes away the entire line at run-time if the constant conditional is false.

do_something() if ($CONSTANT);
do_something_else() if ($CONSTANT & $ANOTHER_CONSTANT);
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