Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:07:02 -0800 (PST) From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> To: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes by default Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.1.10.1112020857250.91234@peregrin.orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83-ERuprd%2B1GmHrzJqhN5yBokQP7ObswZ4rS0W79Q7nJng@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADe0-4=DwzFj1NbJTeq3p92YGF_5yjhc-Yajn-hHNB_aca1k2g@mail.gmail.com> <20111202015133.GA4111@dragon.NUXI.org> <CADe0-4n2rXvoo4K%2BCHd-JBCHJ56OdTJTpzsF1r2X1yvcLt5CEA@mail.gmail.com> <20111202064132.GC88903@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4ED8776F.9060301@FreeBSD.org> <20111202072349.GA89183@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20111202083501.GA73959@dragon.NUXI.org> <CADe0-4nj=ZvfPrT=9=m9hQhsADn9--5VFoAxTncGasQQTZN=0g@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.OSX.1.10.1112020746330.91234@peregrin.orthanc.ca> <CAFMmRNxeP_AEQ11jLJ8NCZmEHyxoeg4Z%2Bb6zJbETC8-S7nqhrQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.OSX.1.10.1112020852270.91234@peregrin.orthanc.ca> <CADLo83-ERuprd%2B1GmHrzJqhN5yBokQP7ObswZ4rS0W79Q7nJng@mail.gmail.com>
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> Obsolete does not mean it doesn't work. No, these days 'obsolete' seems to mean 'it does not have a sexy Flash-driven web GUI.' Profiling is a simple basic tool that makes it easy to quickly find code execution hot-spots. It's not dtrace, or any other plethora of tools that do a more extensive job of profiling. But it's also a tool that is universally available to developers. Or was ... If you don't like it, don't use it. But don't turn that into an excuse to remove the functionality from the rest of us. If you really think profiling is truly useless in this day and age, the proposal should be to eradicate it from the system entirely. --lyndon
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