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Re: late binding

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"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
> As Andrew says, people have been trying this since the 80's, and it
> just never caught on.

Ok, that's a reasonable answer: yes the idea has been tried, and the
advantages weren't compelling (though by implication, at least it wasn't
completely nuts).  Thanks both of you.

> * How long does it take you to "reload the whole program"? ... even
> large programs load in a second or less.

It's not just loading, but there is often setup or other operations
after the program starts running, before it gets to the part you're
trying to debug.  If you can avoid repeating that, it can speed things
up.

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late binding Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-11 01:59 -0800
  Re: late binding Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-11 04:16 -0600
    Re: late binding Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-11 03:06 -0800
      Re: late binding anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-13 15:31 +0000
  Re: late binding albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-01-11 14:05 +0000
  Re: late binding Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 17:58 +0200
  Re: late binding "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-11 08:55 -1000
    Re: late binding Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-11 11:23 -0800
      Re: late binding "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-11 10:37 -1000
  Re: late binding Michael L Gassanenko <m_l_g3@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-13 00:01 -0800
    Re: late binding m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-01-13 04:18 -0800
  Re: late binding Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-13 00:51 -0800
  Re: late binding Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2014-01-13 14:40 +0100
  Re: late binding anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-13 14:41 +0000

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