On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:04 PM, John Hardin wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, John Hardin wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Michael Parker wrote:
>> 
>>> How is this change different from what is provided in the
>>> HitFreqsRuleTiming plugin?
> 
> ...okay, that took about five seconds to find once I was reminded of the 
> name... :(
> 
> One thing that immediately leaps out at me is that plugin uses Time::HiRes 
> tv_interval(), and when doing research for how best to code the elapsed time 
> I found benchmarks showing tv_interval() performs _much_ more poorly than 
> "$time1 = time(); $elapsed = time() - $time1;" The plugin might need some 
> performance tuning.
> 
> The plugin is a lot heavier-weight and provides a lot more analysis than my 
> change. I feel my change would be a better way for an end-user to quickly 
> isolate a poorly-performing rule by enabling a single channel in an 
> interactive debug run without affecting the production install, while the 
> plugin provides more in-depth analysis for rule developers.
> 
> I believe that both have a place, and I'd suggest my change is indeed 
> justified.

I would rather see your change implemented as a plugin, that way people can 
include things if they would like.

All the tools are there to be able todo this, just need to make it happen.

Michael


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