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Re: WDSCI-L Digest, Vol 10, Issue 156


On 2012-06-08, at 4:10 AM, wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

But to add a little to everyone else's answers, the "indeterminate" in this statement: "need to hit f6 an indeterminable number of times" is easily explained by the number of fields on the file in the F-spec - the debugger stops for every single field read from the file. Don't ask me why, but it was always true until I started preventing debugIO as well.

What you are seeing is the "evals" the compiler generates to move each field (and convert it if needed) from the I/O buffer to its location in memory. I have a piece "The new basics" coming out in IT Jungle shortly which explains this stuff.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
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