[m-rev.] for review: document the decl debugger

[Fergus Henderson]

On 27-Aug-2002, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> I wrote:
> > We should consider generating all events even with --trace deep by default.
> 
> On 25-Aug-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > I think that is a good idea.  How much extra code space / compilation time
> > will it cost?
> 
> I measured this over the weekend. (Except for the required updates to the
> expected output of the debugger tests, the change is literally a one-liner.)
> The executable size increased by a bit more than 5%, and the time taken to
> compile stage two increased by a bit less than 8%.
> 
> I think the increased simplicity is worth this much.

I agree.

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