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How frequently do you use profilers/debuggers at work? (anarch.is)
submitted 1 year ago by pinkpatrol@anarch.is to c/programming@beehaw.org
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I know profilers and debuggers are a boon for productivity, but anecdotally I've found they're seldom used. How often do you use debuggers/profilers in your work? What's preventing you? conversely, what enables you to use them?

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[โ€“] camelcdr@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently started doing xeyes debugging.

We have so many debug logs that trying to find your log of a background takes a non zero amount of time.

So just inserting system("xeyes"); is actually way easier, to get instant feedback, and you can just use system("xmessage msg"), if you need a message.

[โ€“] Zapp@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That makes me so happy.