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Re: runtime control.c
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: runtime control.c
> No, let's try to be at least somewhat forward-looking.
Ok, then let's compare the caching vs precompiled ideas. A simple caching
hack is pretty easy too (adequately implemented in a little shell script if
nothing else). Caching seems much easier on the user (vs always locating
the right rpm, be it yum or rhn or hand-wringing and ftp). I would
estimate that the effort involved in setting up the rpm packaging, and that
in implementing a quick caching hack for the translation driver, are within
a factor of two of each other one way or the other. The ongoing rel-eng
and user upgrade hassle potential for separate rpms tied to a kernel rpm
build, seems like it could be sizable, and is slim to none for caching.
Thanks,
Roland