Time Travel in debugger

andrewdavidmackenzie / flow

Exploration of a data-flow programming paradigm

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Time Travel in debugger #245

Open andrewdavidmackenzie opened 5 years ago

andrewdavidmackenzie commented 5 years ago

Debugger mode to store trace of all values and be able to go back in time

andrewdavidmackenzie commented 5 years ago

store the inputs and resulting outputs of all dispatches, with:

dispatch number
process # dispatched
inputs
resulting output

Commands to:

show traces completely (history/trace)
show trace for a given process only
show trace of values for a given process and input number or output route

andrewdavidmackenzie commented 5 years ago

to avoid storing all the traces always (a lot of memory), have a debugger "start tracing" and "end tracing" command. So the index of the trace will not correspond with the dispatch number.