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ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem

ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem

Posted May 2, 2009 2:26 UTC (Sat) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026)
In reply to: ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem by dberkholz
Parent article: ELC2009: Visualizing memory usage with smem

This is a fantastically unproductive line of reasoning. Fitting the features of smem into top might be desirable, but requiring this as a precondition of releasing the smem work at all would be insane. Nothing prevents a motivated individual from taking on the integration work afterward.

In other words, people keep writing new ones because this is the most effective way to make progress.


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