Re: [PATCH] trace2: log progress time and throughput

> Rather than teaching only one operation, like 'git fetch', how to write
> down throughput to traces, we can learn about a wide range of user
> operations that may seem slow by adding tooling to the progress library
> itself. Operations which display progress are likely to be slow-running
> and the kind of thing we want to monitor for performance anyways. By
> showing object counts and data transfer size, we should be able to
> make some derived measurements to ensure operations are scaling the way
> we expect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
> ---
> One note: by putting trace collection into the progress library, we end
> up with data events which have titles like "Receiving objects" - not
> very machine-parseable. An alternative might be to ask for a
> machine-readable title in the progress struct, but I didn't think it was
> worth the code churn. However, I don't have experience with processing
> the trace data after it's been collected, so if this is a bigger problem
> than I think, please say so and I'll figure something out.
> 
> CI run here, although it failed on the same error Junio noted today[1]:
> https://github.com/nasamuffin/git/runs/668457062
> 
>  - Emily
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtv0kc2q1.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com