[m-dev.] Performance of collect
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Sep 25 22:06:17 AEDT 2000
On 25-Sep-2000, Erwan Jahier <Erwan.Jahier at irisa.fr> wrote:
> | On 24-Sep-2000, Erwan Jahier <Erwan.Jahier at irisa.fr> wrote:
> | > | You're calling from C to Mercury. In our current implementation (LLDS back-end),
> | > | this is fairly expensive.
> | >
> | > So what about the HLDS back-end then?
> | >
> | > Is it ready to use?
> |
> | Yes, but not for tracing -- currently it doesn't support the debugger.
>
> Well currently, you can not use the debugger to debug collect programs anyway
> (it is dynamically linked code). So ...
Currently the MLDS back-end doesn't generate *any* calls to MR_trace().
So it can't be used for any kind of tracing, whether it be mdb, Morphine,
the declarative debugger, or collect.
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