[Trac #82] Look for misbehaving userspace apps.
Jim Gettys
jg at laptop.org
Mon Sep 18 22:24:32 EDT 2006
Oh, my, I really did screw up that sentence, didn't I :-(.
And yes, this is what I meant.
- Jim
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 19:01 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:11:13PM -0400, Ivan Krsti?? wrote:
> > On behalf of Jim Gettys, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:
> > > All those timers are very heavyweight, so I can't imagine a significant
> > > performance impact from them.
> > ITYM 'lightweight'.
> No, he doesn't. But I agree that the sentence construction sucks.
>
> Perhaps what he said is better worded as:
> "The timers are heavyweight, so I can't imagine a significant
> performance impact from the counters."
>
> In comparison to the timers, the counters are indeed lightweight - much
> lighter than SystemTap et al.
>
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