tracer

Google skip tracer, or skip tracer database, to see how much info is collected and sold, and that is just for one micro industry.

You may have a language runtime tracer that shows what the language is doing (and do so better than uprobes can), but not system libraries.

Pixar wrote a path tracer in RSL for Monster's University, so Disney could have just used that.

Nevertheless SPJ has suggested to the PyPy/RPython people to write a meta-tracer for Haskell, just to be able to measure what's possible.

I think he means that if you have object references, then those references are interesting for the application itself, and not just for the GC tracer.

You are right, with a tracer, you get most of that for free.

I used a simple home made curve tracer out of a twin-t oscillator, buffer and an oscilloscope.

I'm quite enjoying Speed Tracer but it's giving me a warning about Google Analytics embed code.

But what does the most simple path tracer look like?

What would you recommend for writing a simple ray tracer?

But hopefully we'll end up with a better tracer (ktap+eBPF) after the delay.

Or is it that I'm being too optimistic about the tracer -- and with a generalized PIC one isn't relying upon the tracer to get it right, but forcing a cache on meta-object protocol boundaries?

Do you think a 100 line ray tracer is any more "correlated with real-world performance" than 100 line benchmarks game programs?

This series of blog posts from Mike Farnsworth (a rendering fanatic and blender contributer) goes over how to create a "modern" ray tracer from scratch.

I've spent so many hours with Linux tracing (and talking to its developers), I think my next post will be "Choosing a Linux tracer (Jul 2015)", where I briefly summarize the current state of tracers, and make recommendations.

Sticking a cap or inductor on a curve tracer looks quite a bit different and often will not pass thru origin point either (unless you run the device at resonant freq which is whole nother kettle of worms) Its also kinda frequency dependent and the limiting stage of a memresistor at super high frequencies would be a boring resistor and the way the gap shrinks with freq is important to prove its a "real" memresistor.