C# interview

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 07:22:58 PDT 2008


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Tom S <h3r3tic at remove.mat.uni.torun.pl> wrote:
> 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.

That's true.



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