Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
by forrestthewoods on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:21PM
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> Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration.
Right. That’s why printf debugging sucks.
If you’re in a compiled language with a 2-minute iteration it can take an hour to do a binary search to track down an issue that would take 5 minutes with a proper step debugger.
Print debugging is great because it works and is the ultimate fallback. But it sucks and I hate when I am forced to use it.
Right. That’s why printf debugging sucks.
If you’re in a compiled language with a 2-minute iteration it can take an hour to do a binary search to track down an issue that would take 5 minutes with a proper step debugger.
Print debugging is great because it works and is the ultimate fallback. But it sucks and I hate when I am forced to use it.