<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:18 AM Filipe Cabecinhas via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Derek Bruening via llvm-dev<br>
<<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> TL;DR: We plan to build a suite of compiler-based dynamic instrumentation<br>
> tools for analyzing targeted performance problems. These tools will all<br>
> live under a new "EfficiencySanitizer" (or "esan") sanitizer umbrella, as<br>
> they will share significant portions of their implementations.<br>
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I will bike-shed the name as much as anyone else, but I'll stay away for now :-)<br><br>
</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> While these tools are not addressing correctness issues like other<br>
> sanitizers, they will be sharing a lot of the existing sanitizer runtime<br>
> library support code. Furthermore, users are already familiar with the<br>
> sanitizer brand, and it seems better to extend that concept rather than add<br>
> some new term.<br>
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Not the email to bike-shed the name, but I don't like "Efficiency"<br>
that much here :-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Heh, so I really do like "efficiency", much more than performance or quickness.</div><div><br></div><div>But I really do think that we shouldn't try to bikeshed the name much. IMO, while it's great to throw out ideas around better names, and certainly to point out any serious *problems* with a name, but past that I'll be happy with whatever the folks actually working on this pick.</div><div><br></div><div>I think we should all focus on the relevant technical discussion, and float any name ideas that we have, and let Derek and Qin make the final call on the name.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chandler</div></div></div>