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by victorthehuman 1768 days ago
The problem with those types of breakpoints is that they slow down the app considerably. Put one of those in a tight loop and the timing related bug you're after could be gone.
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Only if they are implemented inefficiently or your application is constrained in a way that precludes efficient implementation.

As long as you can inject code and steal some memory you can just directly patch in the code snippet and patch in a branch instead of a breakpoint instruction. This is functionally equivalent to a adding a print statement, just at runtime instead of compile time, so should not be significantly slower.