6:03:22v3gaso are sly-stickers useful when debugging? or whats the best way to go about stepping through a function or procedure with sbcl/sly?
6:05:33charles`you can place a sticker to "set a breakpoint" and enable break on stickers
6:06:03charles`then it will break when it reaches your sticker without having to add (break) and recompile
6:08:49v3gacharles`: ahh ok, I see now. that's how they're used... ok i'll write something longer and play with it
6:09:22charles`I really wish you could start single stepping after encountering a break, but I haven't figured that out yet
6:12:28loke[m]charles` you can. Just press s in SLIME.
6:13:34v3gaalso with step....i'm using the gentle introduction to symbolic comp book. they're using a different lisp implementation but surrounding a function with (step ...) doesn't give the same feedback as the book.
6:13:47v3gathats really what I was looking for when I discovered stickers
6:13:54charles`when, I do that it steps into some system function
6:14:13charles`(step ... ) especially doesn't work well with event driven development
6:16:40v3gayeah i do get that much, maybe i'm misinterpreting what the book shows. i was expecting even for this small function for it to go through each bit. ah well. it's late, maybe i'm senile for the night
9:03:17flip214wasn't there a way to do performance comparisons across the various implementation via some web interface? paste a few lines, get a performance table back?
9:22:39asarchWhat is a #<VECTOR-INPUT-STREAM {10053AD8A3}>?
9:25:33edgar-rftasarch: sounds like some sort of input-stream buffer
9:25:58loke[m] asarch probably a custom GREY-STREAMS implementation.
9:26:12loke[m]Probably a grey-streams implementation.
9:27:47Nilby(documentaion 'flexi-streams:vector-input-stream 'structure) => "A binary input stream that gets its data from an associated vector of octets."
9:31:37asarch(documentaion 'flexi-streams:vector-input-stream 'structure) => ; Evaluation aborted on #<SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR "The symbol ~S is not external in the ~A package." {1004943783}>.