[re-adding the mailing list again] On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Peggy Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > I find `-D search` the most helpful of debug options.
Good to know. I didn't know anybody else used them. > Most of the -D options seem > geared towards optimization rather than diagnostic, although maybe > I'll learn down the road that they are one in the same. Well, I implemented -D as I was writing the cost-based optimiser, in order to make it easier to visualise the effect of optimisations. So if you have suggestions for things that need a -D option but do not have one, please suggest away. > Subtracting the directory, it seems more difficult to prevent > `-name` from pruning './baz/umsp/foo'. It seems to make more > sense and maybe safer in the long-run, to use `-path` when > referring to a file that is a directory for pruning. I totally agree. Thanks, James.
