Re: var watcher expense

2000-02-03 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:42:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This restriction can be > > relaxed in a future release if there is enough demand. > > As you surely expected ;-), the first demand just arrived with this message. OK. It was easier than I expected: //depot/D/Event/Cha

Re: var watcher expense

2000-02-03 Thread Jochen Stenzel
> This restriction can be > relaxed in a future release if there is enough demand. As you surely expected ;-), the first demand just arrived with this message. Jochen

Re: var watcher expense

2000-02-03 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:21:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > They are implemented with perl's MAGIC. My experience is that MAGIC has > > a very small performance impact. Have you used TIEXXX? Var watchers > > are faster than TIE. > > Ah, that sounds good. By the way, is this special

Re: var watcher expense

2000-02-03 Thread Jochen Stenzel
> They are implemented with perl's MAGIC. My experience is that MAGIC has > a very small performance impact. Have you used TIEXXX? Var watchers > are faster than TIE. Ah, that sounds good. By the way, is this special magic the reason of the restriction that there can be only one var watcher fo

Re: var watcher expense

2000-02-03 Thread Jochen Stenzel
> Gee, I suppose you'll be requesting var watcher timeouts shortly...? :-) How do you know ... ??? ;-) Jochen

Re: var watcher expense

2000-02-03 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:48:39PM -0500, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 06:36:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > what about the costs of var watchers? I'm thinking about a slight > > redesign of my application which would include a lot of them (made and > > destroyed dyn

Re: var watcher expense

2000-02-03 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 06:36:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what about the costs of var watchers? I'm thinking about a slight > redesign of my application which would include a lot of them (made and > destroyed dynamically) running simultaneously. I'm asking because usual > debuggers are

var watcher expense

2000-02-03 Thread Jochen Stenzel
Hello, what about the costs of var watchers? I'm thinking about a slight redesign of my application which would include a lot of them (made and destroyed dynamically) running simultaneously. I'm asking because usual debuggers are often slowed down EXTREMELY if variable watching breakpoints are se