Re: BUGed to death

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>]

>  > Seems all these bug checks are fairly expensive. I can get 1%
>  > back on system time for kernel compiles by changing BUG to 
>  > "do {} while (0)" to make them all compile away. Profiles aren't
>  > very revealing though ... seems to be within experimental error ;-(
>  > 
>  > I was pondering CONFIG_RUN_WILD_NAKED_AND_FREE
> 
> The sort of folks who would worry about that very last 1% are the
> sort of people that would more than likely hit these BUGs as they're
> really stressing things.
> 
> Losing a bunch of potential reports (and possibly doing bad things),
> in the name of a 1% performance boost doesn't sound too productive to me.

True - however I should have included some more info ... Andrew worked
out that some of the hottest ones lead to a null ptr dereference
immediately afterwards anyways, so they're actually pointless.

I wasn't seriously suggesting just removing all of them, was just a point
of interest for some things that would be worth looking at ;-)

I'd agree with you that an unreliable system is 100% slower than a working
one ;-)

M.