it's not as good as helping debug, sorry, that's the wrong way of saying it's not as good at catching some things before you run them, it is easier at some times in debugging as you go along on the fly.

它在帮助我们调试方面可能不是太优秀，对不起，这么说有点不正确,它在运行前捕捉错误,可能不是那么优秀，可能边运行边调试,会更容易一些。

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And you can use it to debug other complex systems. So for example, a laboratory experience.

你会发现这是一个通用的技能,你可以用它来调试。

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You turn on your radio, the radio waves passing by, boom, properly tuned, you detected it.

你打开收音机，无线电波传出来，好好地调试一下，你就检测到它了。

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Does it give you the answer that you expected it to give? Often, in practical problems, you'll spend just as much time doing performance debugging. Why is it slow?

它返回了期待中的结果了么？通常,在实际的问题中你会花，同样多的时间在性能调试上,它为什么运行这么慢？

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OK. All right, let me show you one other tool that I want to use. Which is, I've written that piece of code, I ought to check it. Well, I could just run it, but another useful thing to do is, I'm, especially as I want to debug these things, is to simulate that code.

好，那么，让我给大家讲下,我想用的另外一个工具吧,也就是，我已经写好了这一块代码，我应该去检查检查,那么我可以去运行它,但是特别是当我想要调试代码的时候。

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