Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Calling a function on entry to every single BCO would be
> very costly.
>
> The interpreter could check before entering a BCO whether there was a
> breakpoint set on that BCO. That's nearly equivalent to the
> implementation I proposed before (overwriting the BCO with a
> breakpoint object) and might be simpler, I'm not sure.
Just storing a flag byte in the header of every BCO would be very cheap
I imagine. And there must be some overhead in entering the interpreter
for a BCO anyway, so adding an extra check on the "breakpoint" flag at
the beginning of the interpreter loop should not cause a great slowdown?
Regards,
Malcolm
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