Some tools have components that are required programmatically. E.g., the macro-debugger's useless requires detector or the graphical debugger API (which doesn't seem to be documented). Moving them may break code.
But I do agree that a top-level `tool' collect would make sense. Vincent At Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:25:04 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > > Is 'tool' plus flat subcollections really out? > > I am not really keen on 'tuning', plus I see a chance to thin out the > collection top-level tree here. > > > On Jul 11, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > > > I like coaching for the (formerly known as) performance report tool. A lot! > > > > I was suggesting "tuning" for the collection that would house the > > future visualizer and the performance coach and hopefully eventually a > > memory profiler. (And maybe Eli's profiler could move in there someday > > too.) > > > > Robby > > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Matthias Felleisen > > <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 11, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > >> > >>> Would "tuning" work? > >> > >> They were correct, and you conjectured correctly. We conflated > >> 'optimization' with 'performance gains.' As everyone knows who has been > >> around real compilers and their writers, some 'optimizations' are > >> 'pessimizations' as Keith used to call them. And of course even when > >> 'optimizations' reduce the running time and/or the space consumption, they > >> aren't _optimizations_ as John Dennis used to remind us. There is a > >> similar conflation that additional related work pointed out. People tend > >> to confuse 'analysis results' with 'can do optimization'. This is > >> certainly not true for in-lining in Racket and if you know of more those > >> optimizations, I'd love to hear about them. > >> > >> 'Tuning' would work but we decided that 'coaching' was a good term for > >> what was going on from the programmer's perspective. And the word isn't > >> used anywhere else in CS as far as I know, while other terms (including > >> 'tuning') are used and may have a different connotation. > >> > _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
