[Swift-devel] switchable copious provenance logging

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Ian Foster wrote:

> In other cases, there will be tradeoffs between the amount of input data
> recorded and the amount of provenance information recorded, I think? (Not sure
> if I am right there.)

yes, plenty of tradeoffs. The stuff I did initially didn't capture enough 
to satisfy people. The stuff I'm working on now captures lots more.

> It does seem to me that we should want to distinguish between logging 
> (for errors) and provenance (for recording the computation performed to 
> generate a particular result).

yes.

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