From: Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T04:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN} Komodo 3.5.1 -- a professional Ruby IDE

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On 12/8/05, Eric Promislow <eric.promislow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just coming in to this thread to agree that the Komodo debugger is
> relatively
> slow.  We originally wrote the debugger in pure Ruby, and found
> debugging
> large programs was very slow.  We're shipping a version where a couple
> of
> the bottlenecks were rewritten in C, but that has revealed other
> bottlenecks.
>
> One thing I should point out is that the Komodo Ruby debugger works
> with
> any installed version > 1.8.0.  We don't silo our own interpreter, so
> whatever the
> debugger says your code is doing, that's what it will most likely do
> when
> deployed.  On the other hand, there is a fundamental speed-up I'd like
> to do,
> but it requires working with the API as of 1.8.3.  At that point it
> seems to make
> sense to offer our own embedded interpreter optimized for faster
> debugging,
> but this falls in the thinking-out-loud category at this point.


Thanks for enlightening us, Eric.

Curt

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