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Huh. Is it standard in interpreted language land to avoid optimizations in case for the debugger use case? Seems like that would rule out a ton of potential o

• chrisseaton 12y ago
  It doesn't rule them out, you just need a more sophisticated implementation, using things like JIT compilation.
• vertex-four 12y ago
  > Is it standard in interpreted language land to avoid optimizations in case for the debugger use case? Yes. Otherwise, you'd have to have separate "being debugged" and "not being debugged" runtimes that keep track of different information and do different things, and it's not unlikely that you'd end up with programs doing different things as a result. You can actually access debugger information from inside the program, and it's not that uncommon to do that.