On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, David Schultz wrote: > The page referenced earlier in this thread pointed out that 6 > staff-years went into DTrace. That's accurate, and we're not > talking about part-time employees or people who don't know what > they're doing. The D compiler aside, this is not a small matter > of programming that can just be ported to a new OS or machine > architecture in a few months.
I don't doubt that DTrace took a long time to do. However, in most projects the design phase consumes a lot of time, and it is often the case that unforeseen problems or changes in the feature set cost the developers a lot of time. So while it might have taken six years to write DTrace the first time, I suspect it would take a fraction of that time to re-implement. (It certainly might be longer than "a few months" and I'm not going to quibble. We won't know the precise number until someone does the port.) -Dan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
