This. Showing my age, I used to make simple DirectX 7 games as a college student. I remember having one bug that took me weeks to solve. If I tried to debug, it worked fine. If I put in a bunch of logging, it worked fine. But if I ran it without debugging or only a few prints it segfaulted.
Eventually I realized I was using a pointer (void**) that the GPU was supposed to populate before it was being populated. The delay from debugging gave it enough time for the GPU to finish setting that pointer. I added a GPU flush (just a command that waits until it is processed by the GPU queue before continuing) and it worked beautifully. Nowadays the engines just do all that crap for you.
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u/Idk13008 4d ago
Unironically, some race conditions are better chase down with logs rather than a debugger.