Some questions about the Output

[NMaletinsky]

Hello everyone
I'm using meep and mpb in a Julia package that I develop as my Bsc-Thesis. Now, some of these functions produce an immense amount of output, that is more distracting than useful, as I only need the returned values, and can't find the things that my code printed between all the generated lines. I've tried simply suppressing the output, but then some functions (like run_tm()) fail.
so, since I haven't found answers to these questions anywhere, I'll try it here:

Is there a reason for this ton of output? I feel like less output would somewhat speed up the program.
Is there any way to stop the functions from printing so much, that's not simply redirecting the output to a file? (like some VERBOSE flag that I can pass the compiler or something at runtime)
Also, am I the only one that's bothered by this, or are the answers so obvious, that I'm making a fool of myself by asking these questions?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[NMaletinsky]

Just figured it out; simply set the flags meep.verbosity.meep and meep.verbosity.mpb to 0, and its quiet.
I guess that also answers the third question ;).