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Quoting my other comment in this thread:

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I think it comes down to numbers. What are most installed systems used for? Do more than 50% of installed systems need to be doing this profiling all the time on just all binaries such that they just need to be already built this way without having to identify them and prepare them ahead of time?

If so, then it should be the default.

If it's a close call, then there should be 2 versions of the iso and repos.

As many developers and service operators as there are, as much as everyone on this page is including both you and I, I still do not believe the profiling use case is the majority use case.

The way I am trying to judge "majority" is: Pick a binary at random from a distribution. Now imagine all running instances of that binary everywhere. How many of those instances need to be profiled? Is it really most of them?

So it's not just unsympathetic "F developers/services problems". I are one myself.

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"people across the industry" is a meaningless and valueless term and is an empty argument.



> such that they just need to be already built this way without having to identify them and prepare them ahead of time

I think a big enough fraction of potentially-useful crash reports come from those systems to make it a good default.




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