Ar Llu, 2006-09-18 am 13:27 -0400, ysgrifennodd Frank Ch. Eigler:
> Unless one's worried about planetary-scale energy use, I see no point
> in multiplying overheads by "every box on the planet".
Because we are all paying for your debug stuff we aren't using. Systems
get slow and sucky by the death of a million cuts not by one stupid
action.
> Unfortunately, cases in which this sort of out-of-band markup would be
> sufficient are pretty much those exact same cases where it is not
> necessary. Remember, the complex cases occur when the compiler munges
> up control flow and data accessability, so debuginfo cannot or does
> not correctly place the probes and their data gathering compatriots.
Which if understand you right you'd end up unmunging and reducing
performance for by reducing the options gcc has to make that critical
code go fast just so you know what register something is living in.
Alan
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