Re: why are conditional breakpoints SO SLOW?
Re: why are conditional breakpoints SO SLOW?
- Subject: Re: why are conditional breakpoints SO SLOW?
- From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:04:32 +0100
On 18 Mar 2014, at 18:02, Quincey Morris wrote: All three of the above responders mentioned the “obvious” work around of putting an if-test in the code and a non-conditional breakpoint inside the if-block. If there’s no direct optimization that will reduce the 1,000,000x factor to something more reasonable,
There is none, afaik. then surely the debugger is capable of inserting such an if-test in the code itself, isn’t it?
There are research papers about doing exactly that and it does improve performance a lot. It's far from trivial though, and at least on x86 it's not even always (safely) possible.
Jonas |
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