[slime-devel] Design question

[Helmut Eller]

Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:

>                                                              Any
> thoughts on why that would be a bad way to go?

I think it is important that the debugger pops up as quickly as
possible.  Finding the source location makes things a bit slower; but
I don't know how much.  For some backends we need to read the source
file to determine source location.  If things go badly, we'd have to
parse 10 files before we can send the backtrace to Emacs.

Perhaps your command can send a message like "give me the source
locations for frames 1 to 20".  This way you avoid the delay for the
initial backtrace and your command is still reasonably efficient.

Helmut.