April 1, 2009
11:14 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> wrote:
2009/4/1 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
Tracing has other uses besides debugging though.
The OP said he wished to implement a C trace function for bdb. Wouldn't that make it only applicable to debugging?
I honestly don't recall, but I believe pretty much everyone who uses tracing does so via bdb.py. And yes, when debugging sometimes you have to silently skip 1000 iterations until a condition becomes true, and the tracking speed matters. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)