On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/4/1 Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>: >> Tracing has other uses besides debugging though. > > The OP said he wished to implement a C trace function for bdb. > Wouldn't that make it only applicable to debugging?
I honestly don't recall, but I believe pretty much everyone who uses tracing does so via bdb.py. And yes, when debugging sometimes you have to silently skip 1000 iterations until a condition becomes true, and the tracking speed matters. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
