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Data Science at the Command Line
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sample is already a base tool #1

Closed Fil closed 10 years ago

Fil commented 11 years ago

man sample

DESCRIPTION
     sample is a command-line tool for gathering data about the running behav-
     ior of a process.  It suspends the process at specified intervals (by
     default, every 1 millisecond), records the call stacks of all threads in
     the process at that time, then resumes the process.  The analysis done by
Fil commented 11 years ago

PS: I would suggest to name it as samply

michaeljoseph commented 11 years ago

This isn't the same thing at all- sample doesn't sample processes.

Fil commented 11 years ago

indeed! That's why I recommend a different name.

michaeljoseph commented 11 years ago

Oh, sorry, I see what you mean now :)