Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

[Dave Storrs]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Dan Brian wrote:

> > The debugger API PDD that I submitted a couple of days ago suggested that
> > we incorporate a profiler into the core.  What do people think of this
> > idea?
> 
> I think that with a clean API, many third-party profilers could and would
> be created. I am skeptical of the value of putting it in the core, when a
> well-designed API would exist specifically with the end of getting some of
> that work out of the porter's pockets, and instead allow the World to
> develop their own, much as it currently happens with Java.


        A good point.  There should definitely be a clean API so that
other people can develop their own profilers which could then be plugged
in.  This still leaves the question though...should core provide a default
profiler?

                Dave