Alternatively, we could just change thread name from a char* to a struct {
char*, char* } that contains a long name and a short name.
Geoff
> On Jan 5, 2017, at 9:37 AM, Brady Eidson <beid...@apple.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2017, at 12:48 AM, Yusuke SUZUKI <utatane....@gmail.com
>> <mailto:utatane....@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com
>> <mailto:da...@apple.com>> wrote:
>> I understand the appeal of “org.webkit” and structured names but personally
>> I would prefer to read names that look like titles and are made up of words
>> with spaces, like these:
>>
>> “WebKit: Image Decoder”, rather than “org.webkit.ImageDecoder”.
>> “WebKit: JavaScript DFG Compiler” rather than “org.webkit.jsc.DFGCompiler”.
>>
>> Not sure how well that would generalize to all the different names.
>>
>> I like the idea of having a smart way of automatically making a shorter name
>> for the platforms that have shorter length limits.
>>
>> One interesting idea I've come up with is that,
>>
>> 1. specifying "org.webkit.ImageDecoder"
>> 2. In Linux, we just use "ImageDecoder" part.
>> 3. In macOS port, we automatically convert it to "WebKit: Image Decoder”
>
> Why do we specify “org.webkit.ImageDecoder” if only the “ImageDecoder” part
> is ever going to be used?
> Is that because Windows could use “org.webkit.”?
>
> Again, back to Darin’s point, I don’t see any particular value in ever seeing
> “org.webkit.”
>
> Additionally, the way this proposal treats “ImageDecoder” as multiple words,
> presumably separated on case-change, is problematic.
>
> e.g. “IndexedDatabaseServer” would expand to “Indexed Database Server”,
> different from today.
> e.g. “IndexedDBServer”, which is probably what this should be called, would
> expand to “Indexed D B Server"
> e.g. “GCController” would expand to “G C Controller”
>
> —
>
> Taking your proposal and running with it, I think we could do this:
>
> 1 - Specify the feature name with spaces: “Asynchronous Disassembler”
>
> 2 - On Linux, it gets collapsed and truncated to 15: “AsynchronousDis”
> 2a - It could get truncated with ellipses: “AsynchronousDi…"
>
> 3 - On Windows, it gets “WebKit: “ added and is truncated to 30: “WebKit:
> Asynchronous Disassemb”
> 3a - It could get truncated with ellipses: “WebKit: Asynchronous Disassem…”
>
> 4 - On macOS/iOS, it gets “WebKit: “ added: “WebKit: Asynchronous
> Disassembler"
>
> Addendum: If we see value in having somethings flagged as “JSC” instead of
> “WebKit”, we just augment the input to include that.
> The above could be “JSC.Asynchronous Disassembler”, and a WebKit specific
> feature could be “WebKit. IndexedDB Server”
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brady
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