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Date:      Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:32:03 +0200
From:      Volker Stolz <vs@freebsd.org>
To:        Eitarou Kamo <e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Article on Sun's DTrace
Message-ID:  <20040705133203.GA75345@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <40E95653.6020705@trio.plala.or.jp>
References:  <20040630011635.GF34501@empiric.dek.spc.org> <20040705103747.GA20487@VARK.homeunix.com> <40E95653.6020705@trio.plala.or.jp>

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In local.freebsd-hackers, you wrote:
> I haven't seen above well yet. But A article says that DTrace sounds
> like 30,000 lines of debug print. 

No, already the first article tells you that they use a VM with byte-code
for the C-like language "D". And it's not compiled into the kernel but
hooked in and removed on-the-fly.

Volker
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