[Bug translator/2115] support some function calls on maps

["prasadav at us dot ibm dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From prasadav at us dot ibm dot com  2006-01-06 18:34 -------
Subject: Re:  support some function calls on maps

fche at redhat dot com wrote:

>------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2006-01-06 18:17 -------
>"clear" == "delete MAP"
>"sort" == "sorted foreach"
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Are you referring to the foreach extension you proposed in this msg 
http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2005-q4/msg00488.html. If that is the 
case i personally don't like extending foreach in every possible way and 
if we do this as you indicated we will make it look like common LISP .

>"normalize" == what's that?
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Normalize the data in the stat over a constant. For example i am 
observing performance of write systemcall and i know if the system is 
working normally what the value should be i would like to normalize the 
data collected over that value so that i know what the deviation from 
the normal is. Does this make sense?

>"printa" == an unfinished extension of the print statement
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I am not sure i understand what you mean by this. I personally like the 
idea of a print statement for aggregations separate from print statement 
for scalar variables as the contents of both are quiet different. I 
would like to see printfa() function which gives me an ability to 
specify the format for printing aggregates. I think Martin proposed 
printa() few weeks back, i was hoping we are going to get that implemented.

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