Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > primarily because i fail to see any property of static tracers that are > not met by dynamic tracers. So to me dynamic tracers like SystemTap are > a superset of static tracers. You keep ignoring that a dynamic tracer is nontrivial... :-( A static tracer is easy to implement and sufficient for many uses and most important it doesn't prevent anyone from using a dynamic tracer. Having a choice is good! bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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