debug - Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
doc - Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
jit - Enable Just-In-Time-Compiler. Has no effect except on AMD64 and Darwin.