Re: [Valgrind-developers] Managing complexity

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

> > The syscall handing stuff is completely logically distinct from FV, and
> > it's complex.  But we already talked about that.
>
> Sure.  Perhaps my point is this:  worse-is-better is great for getting
> things going, but it's not a long-term solution.  For example, none of the
> big Unixes are really worse-is-better any more (there are some
> worse-is-better aspects in APIs, but implementation-wise not so much).

I'm kind-of bemused by this use of worse-is-better.  All I meant was that
to get to a better place we may have to go through a worse intermediate
place.  I didn't mean that in the end we should settle for something worse
than what we have already.

J