From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Debug code
Date: 1996/03/19
Date: 1996-03-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4imhsm$v0v@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.827166947@schonberg
In article <dewar.827166947@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
writes about turning off assertions:
|> We have
|> done it much more than once, and have a pretty good idea of how much
|> time it saves in the front end (hint: substantial :-)
Not surprising. In the project I'm currently working on, we have no
compunctions about adding assertions that invoke O(n**2) functions to
check the overall validity of a large and complex data structure.
Does wonders for assigning blame for a bug to a particular phase of the
program!
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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1996-03-15 0:00 ` Debug code Bob Kitzberger
1996-03-15 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
[not found] ` <dewar.827166947@schonberg>
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1996-03-25 0:00 Debug Code Sundog Software
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1996-02-27 0:00 Jerry Blasdel
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