Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108

[Roman Zippel]

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
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