Alexandre: have you ever look to http://www.adrian-lienhard.ch/blog?dialog=smalltak-meets-dtrace ? He has integrated DTrace into the SqueakVM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace
Maybe it is of help... Cheers mariano On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]>wrote: > > I understand. But no matter the UI / environment / frontend , you will > need first the "backend" (call it as you want). > > Yeah, we need an implementation :-) > Your work is indeed important. I foresee nice discussions at esug. > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > > > > > > > > "What is the exact difference of execution if I slightly change a > method?" > > > "If I call #foo it works, if I call #foo2 it does not work. Why? What > are the objects that appears with #foo2 that do not appear with #foo?" > > > All these questions are essential in my opinion. > > > > > > > > > I agree. > > > > > > Code profiler and code debugger are pretty poor. I can continue with > test code coverage tools. > > > After all, Computer Science is a pretty young science. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Alexandre > > > > > > > > > > > > On 25 Apr 2011, at 07:34, Craig Latta wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Alexandre-- > > > > > > > >> Debugging, as well as profiling, is a topic that everybody got it > > > >> wrong. We still debug an application in oo in the same way that > > > >> people debugged their C program: thinking in term of call stack and > > > >> stack frame instead of objects. > > > > > > > > So tell us more! :) How do you express causality? > > > > > > > > > > > > -C > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Craig Latta > > > > www.netjam.org/resume > > > > +31 06 2757 7177 > > > > + 1 415 287 3547 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > > > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > > > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Mariano > > > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > > > > > > > -- > > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mariano > > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > > > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > > > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
