At 02:47 PM 3/10/00 -0500, Carl Friedberg wrote:
>wait, are we talking VMS debug support, or PERL debug support.
>
>VMS debug support should NOT change the execution speed; it makes the image
>a bit larger (the symbol tables are loaded in virutal memory) but I've never
>found an "debug" image to be any different in speed than one without debug.
>In fact, somewhere buried in ancient code, I have a little "trick" which
>flips the debug bit in the header so you can turn on debugging dynamically
>by remote control...
>
>I assumed Dan was speaking about the Perl debugger, which is a pile of
>psuedocode?
Nope, I was talking about something else entirely, and the confusion's my
fault. In addition to the perl debugger, accessible via the -d flag,
there's a deeper level of debugging available with the -D flag. Does all
sorts of nifty things, with some performance hits associated with it. Sorry
'bout the confusion.
FWIW, it turns out that things work just fine with DEBUGGING enabled. I
hate it when bugs don't bug when the debugger's in...
Dan
--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
Dan Sugalski even samurai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even
teddy bears get drunk
