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Article #2853Long wait times with Borland's integrated debugger
From: Antony Hodgson
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 18:44
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 18:44
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I bought TC++ a couple of months ago and have generally been pleased with it. I have noticed, however, a very annoying delay when I invoke the call stack (Ctrl-F3) while debugging a program of about 20,000 lines. On my 12MHz 286 machine (1MB RAM, 32MB hard disk), it can take upwards of a minute (*YES, 60 SECONDS*) before the call stack info is displayed. In the interim, there seems to be a great deal of disk activity. Even after I get control back, any subsequent command such as trying to use the cursor keys to see more of the current line or moving down to the next line takes another 15, 20, or 45 seconds to respond, and if I make the mistake of pressing a cursor key long enough for it to autorepeat, I don't get control back for several minutes. Is this normal (i.e., has this happened to other people)? Is there anything I can do to improve the response time (I already invoke TC++ with the extended memory switch, so it has the full 384K available, as confirmed by the Get Info menu choice under the File menu item)? Any help anyone can give me would be very much appreciated as the current situation makes it practically impossible to debug my programs efficiently. Please reply via Email. Thanks, Tony Hodgson ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ogicse!mintaka!bloom-beacon!hstbme.mit.edu!ahodgson From: ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu (Antony Hodgson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Long wait times with Borland's integrated debugger Summary: invoking the call stack function on large programs takes ages Message-ID: <1990Oct30.184443.2766@athena.mit.edu> Date: 30 Oct 90 18:44:43 GMT Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Reply-To: ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu.UUCP (Antony Hodgson) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 25