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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] `log-message-ignore-regexps': Message labeling
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Better to keep all the messages and defer the filtering until the
 > > user wants to look at the messages.
 > 
 > Two points you might have missed:
 > 
 > 1) how many functions will you log?  currently, only the "good" ones
 >    are logged, which saves us from remembering a load of unnecessary
 >    cruft;
 > 
 > 2) no matter what we do, it is generally cleaner that the issued
 >    message says which kind of message it is, than that we catch it
 >    with ugly regexps.

My suggestion is not meant to address a big problem, message
classification.  Rather it was meant to address a little
problem, applications being slowing down by regexp matching.
Labelling the messages is beside the point if the filter
matching is deferred until the time view-lossage is run.

I am mostly uninterested in the implementation filtering issue,
since I don't think messages should be filtered at all.  But if
we're going to move to some message labelling system, we need to
give it more thought than we've currently given it.

