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Towards a defined log/trace output from the Sail model

Open rsnikhil opened this issue 5 months ago • 23 comments

This first comment just describes the issue(s). Follow-up comments discuss possible solutions.

Currently the Sail model writes out a log file in ASCII format. Issues:

  • Logs can become very large (a binary format would be much smaller)

  • Downstream tools (verification, trace-driven simulation, ...) have to parse ASCII text to recreate the log data

  • We haven't been precise about defining a log format, and we update it as needed in an ad hoc fashion. As a result downstream tools break when we make such changes.

rsnikhil avatar Sep 09 '24 13:09 rsnikhil