stptracer-20060828 has released.

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Li Guanglei <guanglei@cn.ibm.com> writes:

> [...]  So we use _stp_printf() for its fancy printing format in
> trade of its slower speed compared with gBTI.  But the interface
> like gBTI imposes too much restriction on trace data format and the
> number of data items to be traced. Maybe we should find some places
> inside _stp_printf() for further performance improvement while still
> have the capability to print data freely.

To avoid the overhead inherent in dynamic interpretation of formatting
strings, we would need to gradually adopt a compiled approach.  The
translator is already parsing formatting strings.  It could emit
low-level equivalent code to write binary chunks directly.  The
runtime would only need to provide buffer-reservation/commit routines.

- FChE