Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/9] perf trace: Add Perl scripting support

[Tom Zanussi]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 10:13 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:09:25PM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > > I think we also want to have a 'perf -s *' kind of thing to get a list 
> > > of all available language modules.
> > > 
> > 
> > I knew somebody would point that out (and suggest a better way ;-)  That
> > all makes sense - I'll make these changes in the next version.
> 
> I'm a bit worried about linking two million scripting language into the
> main perf binary.  Can't we just have seaprate perlperf / pythonperf,
> rubyperf, awkperf binaries that only contain the scripting support?
> 

Yeah, that's a good point.  Maybe support for each language should be
implemented as shared library 'plugins', where the right one gets loaded
dynamically using dlopen/dlsym based on the type of script invoked or
command-line option used.  I'll try something like that for the next
version.

Tom

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