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Re: analysis of polling in systemtap
Hi -
hunt wrote:
> [...] The real problem I want to solve is how to better handle timer
> events that print data and then clear a pmap. Because clearing a
> large pmap can be expensive and could be done for free while
> aggregating it.
This idiom (iterating then clearing an array) may well be frequent
enough to justify yet another addition to the "foreach" syntax, say a
"delete" keyword somewhere in the mix. Before long, we'll get to the
Common Lisp LOOP macro.
- FChE