> The name could be a metric or an event, the logic for each is quite I would say collisions are unlikely. Event names follow quite structured patterns.
> different. You could look up an event and when it fails assume it was > a metric, but I like the simplicity of this approach. I don't think it's simpler for the user. > Maybe this > change could be adopted more widely with something like "perf stat -e > metric:IPC -a -I 1000" rather than the current "perf stat -M IPC -a -I > 1000". I thought about just adding metrics to -e, without metric: of course. -Andi
