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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Ooops, forgot one thing in my Lattice review
Message-ID: <1095@sas.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 89 19:00:32 GMT
References: <17315@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <17315@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley) writes:
>CPR takes up about 3 times as much memory as the manx SDB, and is slower. 

I don't know where you get your information, but according to Victor Wagner's
comparison in Transactor for the Amiga, CPR and SDB take up approximately the
same amount of memory.  

In what way is CPR slower than SDB?  I haven't heard that complaint before.
If you're using memory watchpoints, CPR is quite slow, but then again SDB
doesn't support memory watchpoints.  What you really need for that is some
kind of hardware debugging board.

>Lattice turnes a 155K program into a 650K one when you turn on debug, Manx
>just adds an extra .DBG file of about 100K.

Restructuring the debugging information is high on the list for the 6.0 release.
We discovered the problems with the current format too late and decided that
it would be better to get the product in the hands of the users and then
improve it than hold off another six months to improve the debug information.

--Doug