[Mono-dev] Mono preview 2.0 binary and DTrace

2008-08-02 Thread Boris Dušek
Hi, I grabbed the Mono Preview 2.0 installer for OS X and wanted to test new DTrace probes mentioned in Release Notes[1], but it did not work. On the #mono IRC channel, I learned that DTrace probes in mono are not enabled in the binary packages provided, since it would incur performance penalty

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono preview 2.0 binary and DTrace

2008-08-02 Thread Andreas Färber
Hi, Am 02.08.2008 um 17:25 schrieb Boris Dušek: I grabbed the Mono Preview 2.0 installer for OS X and wanted to test new DTrace probes mentioned in Release Notes[1], but it did not work. Just to be sure, how did you test? As described in mono's man page? On the #mono IRC channel, I learned

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono preview 2.0 binary and DTrace

2008-08-02 Thread Geoff Norton
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:30 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: Not fully true, there is of course a minimal degradation (~5 nop instructions on Solaris), but it should be hardly noticeable. I have taken care to only call helper functions when the probe is active. Was the answer on IRC in any

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono preview 2.0 binary and DTrace

2008-08-02 Thread Zoltan Varga
Hi, Looking at dtrace.h, all the current probes seem to be in non-critical code-paths, so they are unlikely to have a perf impact. We could make --enable-dtrace=true the default in HEAD, so it gets some testing. Zoltan On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Geoff Norton

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono preview 2.0 binary and DTrace

2008-08-02 Thread Geoff Norton
Zoltan, I'm fine with this on trunk, but I still think barring any compelling reason we should leave the branch as is. -g On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 19:20 +0200, Zoltan Varga wrote: Hi, Looking at dtrace.h, all the current probes seem to be in non-critical code-paths, so they are unlikely

[Mono-dev] [PATCH] Cleanup of code for processing *.browser

2008-08-02 Thread Dean Brettle
Hi all, Attached is slightly revised version of a patch that Owen Brady sent me. Owen is the original author of the code that Mono's ASP.NET 2.0 implementation uses for processing *.browser files. The patch updates his email in the copyright notices at the top of each file and removes some files