[Swift-devel] Re: Drop kickstart, adopt wrapper logs?

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 10:48 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> Im happy with wrapper for now.
> 
> Regarding use: there is a real need. *I* used kickstart quite a bit when 
> working on apps. It doesnt get used because its not easy and not efficient.
> 
> A real user need exists right now: the OOPS folding app has memory and 
> cpu usage issues that impact its feasibility. The user (Glen Hocky) 
> needs to compare its run time on different platforms with different 
> compilers, and also needs to tune how many copies run on multicore hosts 
> (bgp, sicortex, Abe/QueenBee on TG, and Ranger - 4, 6, 8, and 16 
> respectively).
> 
> So Glen is essentially doing his own logging in the app wrapper, using 
> /usr/bin/time.  But this is something we can and should do for the user, 
> simply, naturally, and by default. And make it easy enough that the 
> basic app performance characteristics are reported on every run.

Presumably we could do similar things in the wrapper by looking at /proc
and such. Though Jens would shout "that's not portable!".