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12 Nov 2005

Great Developers - some things I don't agree with but mostly bang on



<P><EM>"A great developer knows that they don't really know their code until they've stepped through it. A great developer sets breakpoints on every line of code as it's written so they know which lines haven't been hit."</EM></P> <P>Pah. you don't need to set a breakpoint on every line - you need to step through the code by stepping through it, not relying on breakpoints - if the code's been optimized in any way, using out of order execution, you're going to get lost quickly just hitting run and waiting for it to stop again - try debugging multi-threaded PS2 sound code compiled to be as fast as possible using breakpoints and run... oh, and don't forget, bools are different sizes on the different threads on the different processors... <BR>&lt;/rant off, it would seem... &gt;</P> <P>must be too much caffeine.</P>

Daishi