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Docs do not explain what a tracy span is

Open ctsrc opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

https://docs.rs/tracy-client/latest/tracy_client/macro.span.html

It is not clear from the rust tracy client docs what a "Tracy span" is.

If we take a look in Tracy itself, they only mention the word "span" four times in their own documentation pdf.

Things that are not clear:

  • Is a Tracy span related to tokio tracing (crate tracing) span?

  • Are Tracy spans used together with Tracy frames? Or are Tracy spans and Tracy frames orthogonal to one-another?

  • When running Tracy connected to rust tracy client, where in Tracy can you see the beginnings, ends and durations of the spans you define using the rust tracy client?

ctsrc avatar Sep 30 '23 17:09 ctsrc