Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On December 2, 2003 08:52 am, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
As you say, relay debugging adds a huge overhead... however, would you say that this overhead would be fairly constant for each particular function?
And herein lies the problem: we're adding a _big_ constant overhead (O) to a variable cost (c).
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