C# interview

[Tom S]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
>> No, instead you have to open a debugger to discover the file and line
>> number... What's the point of losing that time?
> 
> Because -- according to Walter -- access violations are much better
> than how they had it in the old days before memory protection (back
> when programmers had to walk 20 miles uphill both ways in the snow to
> work), so you'd better be satisfied with them.
> 
> I think it's an awful argument.

Not if you consider what I blabbered about at the TConf - stack tracing 
integrated with the runtime (and DDL!) :) It would skip the runtime cost 
while shifting it into executable size (cause you'd need -g) and you 
could still disable it in release code.


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