Re: [PATCH prototype] [0/8] Predictive bitmaps for ELF executables

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  When would that time be? I cannot think of a single heuristic that would
>  work for both "/bin/true" and a OpenOffice start.

In both cases the stable state is reached after, say, 4 seconds.  It's
just that true terminates before the time is up.  I think something
like "trace the first N seconds" is a reasonable heuristics.
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