On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:49:55 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > Kenneth Lerman wrote: >> I guess your style is more subtle than mine. >> >> I think I would just record everything whether or not it changed. >> Hmmm... if we store 1000 bytes at each step for a million (executed) >> line program. That's "only" a gig. Small potatoes by today's >> standards. >> > Remember that this stuff has to be processed in near-real time. > Anything that greatly slows > down the interpreter or trajectory planner is not going to be seen as > a > universal improvement.
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