[Python-Dev] PyCharm debugger became 40x faster on Python 3.6 thanks to PEP 523

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Sat Mar 25 08:56:26 EDT 2017
On 25.03.17 12:04, Victor Stinner wrote:
> https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2017/03/inside-the-debugger-interview-with-elizaveta-shashkova/
>
> "What changed in Python 3.6 to allow this?
>
> The new frame evaluation API was introduced to CPython in PEP 523 and it
> allows to specify a per-interpreter function pointer to handle the
> evaluation of frames."
>
> Nice!

Awesome! Any chance that pdb can utilize similar technique? Or this 
doesn't make sense for pdb?




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