> On 2012-01-04 15:57:35, Nathan Binkert wrote:
> > src/python/m5/SimObject.py, line 900
> > <http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/930/diff/1/?file=16302#file16302line900>
> >
> >     This seems to be a massive repeat of the print_ini code.  Could you 
> > build the ini_file code on top of this code?
> >     
> >     Also, the name ini_str is pretty outdated, is it still necessary?  does 
> > str() work?  We could also separate __str__ and __repr__ (though that could 
> > certainly be a separate change.
> 
> Steve Reinhardt wrote:
>     It's different enough from print_ini that it seems to me it might be hard 
> to fold these together.  One thing that would help is if we added a 
> sorted_keys() method to multidict, then all the code like:
>     
>         child_names = self._children.keys()
>         child_names.sort()
>         for n in child_names:
>     
>     could be changed to:
>     
>         for n in _children.sorted_keys():
>     
>     both here and in print_ini (and probably elsewhere).
>     
>     As far as ini_str(), you can look in params.py to see where that differs 
> from str(); since the default for ini_str() is str(), it's only overridden 
> when different, with one exception :).
> 
> Nathan Binkert wrote:
>     for n in sorted(self._children.keys()) not good enough?
>     
>     Also, I agree that ini_str and str can be different, but I don't see why 
> that is useful.  We can always just use __str__ instead of ini_str and not 
> care.  ini_str only needed to be special when we were parsing ini files to 
> suck in the configuration.  Now, we can be much more flexible with how we 
> output them.  If we need different representations, then we can use __repr__ 
> and __str__ for them.
> 
> Steve Reinhardt wrote:
>     Heh, good point, guess I'm still stuck in pre-2.4 mode.  So we should do 
> that.
>     
>     For ports (or specifically PortRefs), ini_str() print's the peer's name, 
> while __str__ prints the name of the port itself.  Probably a lot of the 
> other overrides could be changed to just overriding __str__, but ports are 
> the only one that Ali uses.  Though ports are different from params, so we 
> could just call it peer_name() or something like that.

I guess I'd like to see this, but if ali doesn't want to do it now, I'd 
understand.  It is a separate problem.


- Nathan


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On 2011-12-16 13:35:00, Ali Saidi wrote:
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> (Updated 2011-12-16 13:35:00)
> 
> 
> Review request for Default.
> 
> 
> Summary
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> 
> config: support outputing a pickle of the configuration tree
> 
> This is useful as an input potential input to power models and visualization 
> tools.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   src/python/m5/SimObject.py ca98021c3f96 
>   src/python/m5/main.py ca98021c3f96 
>   src/python/m5/params.py ca98021c3f96 
>   src/python/m5/simulate.py ca98021c3f96 
> 
> Diff: http://reviews.m5sim.org/r/930/diff
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ali
> 
>

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