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

Roman Zippel
2006-09-14T21:07:42Z

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