On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:23:04AM -0700, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:46:24AM -0400, Daniel Ellard wrote: > > I don't doubt that DTrace took a long time to do. However, in most > > projects the design phase consumes a lot of time, and it is often the > > case that unforeseen problems or changes in the feature set cost the > > developers a lot of time. So while it might have taken six years to > > write DTrace the first time, I suspect it would take a fraction of > > that time to re-implement. (It certainly might be longer than "a few > > months" and I'm not going to quibble. We won't know the precise > > number until someone does the port.) > > They said "6 staff-years". This means if they have 6 people working on > it full time, it took 1 year to complete. If they had 60 people full > time, it took just over 5 weeks (technically, i doubt that would work > practically).
It works about as well as having 3 women deliver a baby in 3 months. -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
