@SlowPath renaming discussion

[Christian Humer]

I also agree not to use inline. I usually use "guest language inlining" for
1), "expansion" for 2) and "host language inlining" for 3).

Will keep the suggestions flowing and will wrap up a vote later on.



- Christian Humer

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Gero Leinemann <gero.leinemann at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> Though I find the simplicity of "@NotInlined" etc. appealing, I'd
> recommend not to use the word "inline", as this is highly overloaded in the
> Truffle/Graal context:
> 1. inlining by AST rewriting (language level)
> 2. inlining during/for PE (Truffle level)
> 3. inlining done by the compiler (Graal/compiler level)
> This confused - at least - me quite a bit when I started working at FastR.
>
> What about @StopPE?
>
> Best,
> Gero
>
> Am 26.09.2014 um 16:49 schrieb Chris Seaton:
>
>  What about something less Truffle specific? What about @StopInlining,
>> @NotInlined or @DontInline?
>>
>> On 26 Sep 2014, at 15:28, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Christian,
>>>
>>> Am 26.09.2014 um 16:11 schrieb Christian Humer <
>>> christian.humer at gmail.com>:
>>> I would suggest these names:
>>> @Boundary
>>> @TruffleBoundary
>>> @PartialEvaluationBoundary (or @PEBoundary)
>>>
>>> Please add more suggestions and vote for whatever you think is best.
>>>
>>> I'll try to first give my rationale for how I try to come up with a
>>> name. It should express the intent of the annotation with regard to the
>>> method it is attached to, at a level that is understandable by a Truffle
>>> user.
>>>
>>> Applying this, and note that this is purely my personal view, @Boundary
>>> is a bit too fuzzy; @TruffleBoundary is more apt, but regarding a method as
>>> a boundary is a bit odd; and @PEBoundary is rather technical (not focused
>>> on the user).
>>>
>>> Alternative suggestions (more may be coming): @TruffleInterpreted,
>>> @TruffleInterpretOnly. (Prepending "Truffle" should indicate that the
>>> method is not exempt from compilation.)
>>>
>>> If the technical stance of @PartialEvaluationBoundary is agreeable but
>>> the name is too long, how about @NoPE? ;-)
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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