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Re: precompiled probing scenarios
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
- Cc: "David Smith" <dsmith at redhat dot com>, <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 25 Oct 2006 21:07:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: precompiled probing scenarios
- References: <C56DB814FAA30B418C75310AC4BB279DD41D4A@scsmsx413.amr.corp.intel.com>
"Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com> writes:
> [...]
> That's partly my point. Those pairings are functionally equivalent,
> right? So why should the code we generate show any differences?
> [...]
> My hope is that someday the translator will also treat less obvious
> cases like these as identical: [...]
While none of these is a bad idea, I see little practical necessity
for normalization. How many nearly-identical scripts do we ship? How
many normalizably-identical scripts do people actually use? If the
answer is "not many" or even "none", I wouldn't worry about it.
- FChE