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

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Message-ID: <20091007141332.GA21320@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:13:32 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fweisbec@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/9] perf trace: Add Perl scripting support

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?

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