Enhancing Ruby with DTrace probes [PSARC/2008/174 Self Review]

[Prashant Srinivasan]

Prashant Srinivasan wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> I am unclear if the existence of a bug (6659110) is adequate 
>> justification for not delivering this feature on SPARC.  Particularly 
>> given that the named bug has not even been evaluated for accuracy, 
>> much less root caused or analyzed for cost-to-fix.
>
> The bug it self is being scoped down by folks in the iropt and front 
> end groups.  If by "not even been evaluated for accuracy" you mean 
> user error, the compiler team is able to reproduce the problem, and 
> have indicated that they think it's a problem with the probes.
>

Oops, I meant to say " . . and have not indicated that they think it's a 
problem with the probes".
 -ps

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