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Coverage at a Crossroads
This is an interesting time for coverage.py: I’m trying to make use of new facilities in Python to drastically reduce the execution-time overhead, but it’s raising tricky questions about how coverage should work.
This is an interesting time for coverage.py: I’m trying to make use of new facilities in Python to drastically reduce the execution-time overhead, but it’s raising tricky questions about how coverage should work. They’ve accomplished this in a few clever ways, primarily by instrumenting the code to directly announce what is happening rather than using a trace function. I mention this as a problem here because the clever NO-OP rewriting scheme depends on being able to insert a line at a destination that clearly indicates where the branch started from.
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