about systemtap cost

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

academicgareth wrote:

> Which case would cost more in runtime?
> [... one script with three probes vs. three scripts with one probe each ...]

There should be no difference at a first-order level of analysis, so
do whatever makes more sense from a script life-cycle or data-sharing
or other such abstract concern.

(Second-order performance effects like cache locality probably slightly
favour putting the probes together into one script.)

- FChE