Curt Hibbs
12/8/2005 7:34:00 PM
On 12/8/05, Eric Promislow <eric.promislow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just coming in to this thread to agree that the Komodo debugger is
> relatively
> slow. We originally wrote the debugger in pure Ruby, and found
> debugging
> large programs was very slow. We're shipping a version where a couple
> of
> the bottlenecks were rewritten in C, but that has revealed other
> bottlenecks.
>
> One thing I should point out is that the Komodo Ruby debugger works
> with
> any installed version > 1.8.0. We don't silo our own interpreter, so
> whatever the
> debugger says your code is doing, that's what it will most likely do
> when
> deployed. On the other hand, there is a fundamental speed-up I'd like
> to do,
> but it requires working with the API as of 1.8.3. At that point it
> seems to make
> sense to offer our own embedded interpreter optimized for faster
> debugging,
> but this falls in the thinking-out-loud category at this point.
Thanks for enlightening us, Eric.
Curt