Ken Raeburn <raeb...@raeburn.org> writes:
> I have a suggestion: Let's set SCM_DEBUG=1 by default for the 1.9.x
> series.
[...]
> Thoughts?
You didn't say why - but I presume it's because things are already
broken, and you think they should be fixed up, or because you think
SCM_DEBUG things are very fragile, and so we shouldn't miss breakage
when it happens. Is that right?
If so, I wonder if a better solution would be for us to have a nightly
build with SCM_DEBUG=1, and to encourage developers to keep an eye on
that. If you can let me know the appropriate incantation, I can easily
set up another build with this.
On my old laptop, the scm->go part of the build already takes quite a
long time (of the order of 10 minutes), so I'd be concerned about this
slowdown:
/* If SCM_DEBUG_CELL_ACCESSES is set to 1, cell accesses will perform
* exhaustive parameter checking: It will be verified that cell parameters
* actually point to a valid heap cell. Note: If this option is enabled,
* guile will run about ten times slower than normally.
Regards,
Neil
