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Full speed debugging?

by Werner Schuster (murphee) :: Rate this Message:

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howdy,

since there was talk about planning 1.2: any plans on actually using the
JVMs debugger instead of doing the trace-based debugging?
As far as I understand, IronRuby generates debugging information in the
generated IL (or PDB or whatever it's called), which should mean running
stuff under the debugger shouldn't have much of a overhead (as compared
to trace-based debugging which slows down execution considerably).

I understand that there are  issues, like the fact that only a certain
part of the code is actually turned into bytecode (eg. AST interpreted
code vs JITed/AOTed code) but I was wondering if someone has considered
changing the debugging cost from a cost per executed line to a cost per
invoked breakpoint.

Yes I'm aware of jruby-debug and this
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/JRuby-Debugging-In-Visual-Studio   - but
these are still trace-based.

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