[m-rev.] New 'threadscope' grade

[Paul Bone]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:17:08AM +1100, Paul Bone wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:06:14AM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Paul Bone wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:34:32AM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >>> At the risk of starting heated discussions on this list - I can't do it
> >>> in person as I would need to shout even louder than above - the name
> >>> should not be composed of the names of two existing grade components, i.e.
> >>> "par" and "prof".
> >>
> >> How about 'threadscope' or maybe 'ts' since that's the main feature provided
> >> here.  It should be combined with the par grade such that a full, suitable
> >> grade would be:
> >>
> >>    asm_fast.gc.par.threadscope
> >
> > So far as "ts" is concerned, remember that we already have the components
> > "tsc" and "tsw".
> 
> Ouch,  Ok, 'ts' is a bad name.
> 

Following our off-list discussions on Friday everybody seems to be happy with
the name "threadscope" as in the above example.  At least this was the one
suggestion for which there where no objections.  Therefore, I'll call it
"threadscope" unless someone raises a strong reason why such a name would be
bad.


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