Sometimes but not always. It's a feature that it's easy to enable a bunch of different traces/debug checks easily. In the trace case it's typically much more noise on the higher levels that the extra messages from the lower ones don't do much difference. In the debug case it could be useful to enable the more expensive checks as individual flags, though.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2003-01-10 20:40: Subject: Trace levels and the garbage collector
Ah. Bad then it would make sense to have them as flags instead.
/ Martin Nilsson (Åskblod)