Squelch profiling output

[Dan Middleton]

Hi,

Is there a build flag to shut off the profiling output?
I can go modify libff's profiling.cpp

bool inhibit_profiling_info = true;
bool inhibit_profiling_counters = true;

But I'd prefer if I can write my libsnark-based application such that other users can just follow a build file and not have to also modify the chain of dependencies.

There's also this kind of output that isn't controlled by those profiling bools. 

Calling r1cs_ppzksnark_generator

* QAP number of variables: 74

* QAP pre degree: 81

...

Calling r1cs_ppzksnark_prover

* Elements of w skipped: 33 (47.14%)

* Elements of w processed with special addition: 35 (50.00%)

* Elements of w remaining: 2 (2.86%)

...

Thanks,

Dan

[middle...@gmail.com]

I never found a build flag, but I did find you can squelch the libff profiling output by setting that global within your own application like this:

libff::inhibit_profiling_info = true;

The other counter outputs look like they come from a multiexp.tcc that has been copied around a few places. There's no build or runtime conditionals around those so you have to comment them out manually in your own dependency tree.

Regards,

Dan