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Author jcea
Recipients Garen, belopolsky, danchr, dhduvall, dmalcolm, fche, glyph, hazmat, jbaker, jcea, jmcp, laca, lasizoillo, loewis, mjw, movement, neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, robert.kern, ronaldoussoren, scox, serverhorror, sirg3, techtonik, twleung, wsanchez
Date 2011-12-11.06:03:12
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Pending work yet: (documented to avoid forgeting it)

- Performance hit because trying to determine the source line in each function call. To be solved with ¿tolerable? memory overhead. Would be acceptable to sacrifice x2/x4 time the pyc filesize (in memory) in order to avoid any runtime performance hit?. That is, a million bytecodes (not a bad program size) could need 2/4 MB. I think it is a good investment if DTRACE becomes performance-transparent.

- Build procedure is flaky. I am asking DTrace developers.

- DTRACE/GCC offset/bitmasks doesn't coincide. Instead of wiring offsets manually, they should be detected at compile time, automatically.

- Add new probes. Suggestions?. What do you want to instrumentalize?. I am thinking about the GIL, module import

- Try the code with "clang" instead of GCC.

- Address pending review comments done by Martin v. Löwis.

- Use PEP 3155.

- Trace C function calls/returns, not only Python ones. The problem here is to know the name of the function, because we can call it in a million different ways. Memorizing the last attribute lookuped is not enough. It seems necessary to memorize some extra metadata at C import.
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2011-12-11 06:03:13jceasetrecipients: + jcea, loewis, rhettinger, ronaldoussoren, belopolsky, pitrou, wsanchez, movement, techtonik, serverhorror, glyph, laca, twleung, jbaker, robert.kern, sirg3, danchr, dhduvall, dmalcolm, mjw, Garen, neologix, lasizoillo, fche, hazmat, jmcp, scox
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