WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes by default
Lyndon Nerenberg
lyndon at orthanc.ca
Fri Dec 2 17:07:04 UTC 2011
> Obsolete does not mean it doesn't work.
No, these days 'obsolete' seems to mean 'it does not have a sexy
Flash-driven web GUI.'
Profiling is a simple basic tool that makes it easy to quickly find code
execution hot-spots. It's not dtrace, or any other plethora of tools that
do a more extensive job of profiling. But it's also a tool that is
universally available to developers. Or was ...
If you don't like it, don't use it. But don't turn that into an excuse to
remove the functionality from the rest of us.
If you really think profiling is truly useless in this day and age, the
proposal should be to eradicate it from the system entirely.
--lyndon
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