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Ply: Lightweight, Dynamic Tracing in Linux (wkz.github.io)
99 points by ArtWomb on Oct 25, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Seems to be subsumed by https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace right?


Some key differences [1]

> ply, by Tobais Waldekranz, is another front-end to BPF. I like it. It isn't complete yet, but has some interesting differences to bpftrace: ply emits instructions directly, whereas bpftrace uses llvm's IR API (which can be fairly difficult to code in). ply is also C, whereas bpftrace is C++.

> It's possible that ply will find its users on embedded Linux and minimal environments, whereas bpftrace will be popular for large server Linux.

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2018-10-08/dtrace-for-linux...


Tobias




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