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>What’s an example of a fast debugger? My apologies in advance if this feels like a gotcha, but… Casey ended up swapping to RemedyBG for debugging. He made a
by fwlr 4y ago
>What’s an example of a fast debugger?
My apologies in advance if this feels like a gotcha, but… Casey ended up swapping to RemedyBG for debugging. He made a video about why. From about 0:50 onwards he talks about the speed and feature set of the watch window https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r9eQth4Q5jg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r9eQth4Q5jg
Also, I don’t mean to be rude by ignoring all the questions you posed; they’re good questions, I just don’t have answers for them (I would hope the developers whose full-time job it is to build debuggers would, though).
- peterfirefly 4y ago> Casey ended up swapping to RemedyBG for debugging. Thank you! I had no idea it existed. The watch window in VS is slower on my 2GHZ laptop than the one in Turbo Debugger was on a 10MHz 8086. That simply makes no sense. I know that the compilers do more optimization and that the debugging info therefore has to be more complex today. It still makes no sense!
- fwlr 4y agoDon’t get me started. I know I’m sounding like an incurable fanboy for Casey because I mention him in every comment, but it’s only because I am an incurable fanboy for him, his polemics about software being thousands of times slower than it should be these days strike a deep chord with me. In one of his rants he goes to the effort of booting up a version of Visual Studio from 20 years ago, on a 20 year old machine, to demonstrate that it really truly was way faster back then than it is now: https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U at 36 minutes in.
- peterfirefly 4y ago> https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U That was a beautiful rant :)