Printing In Console Performance

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TheScriptan
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Printing In Console Performance

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I want to ask a simple question, does printing in console very often costs some performance? For example I have set up a bullet class and every time bullet gets out of the boundary I print that bullet got destroyed and destroy it afterwards?
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Yes becuse it needs to check if it left boundry
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I check boundaries, because I want to delete the bullet when it's off the boundaries, I asked if command print(), cost performance if I use it very often (not in update or spamming loop or something like that). As I said I use print() statement before turret gets destroyed
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The occasional print won't do much, but if you print several times every frame you'll notice something.
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Printing in the console should only be done for debugging etc, so when your game is done you remove the console. Why would a slight performance reduction be of any concern?
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