On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 06:13:58PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > I do wonder if this really needs to be part of the progress bar. The > > goal of the progress bar is to give the user a sense that work is > > happening, and (if possible, but not for "enumerating") an idea of when > > it might finish. If the trace code can already do detailed timings, then > > shouldn't we just be encouraging people to use that? > [...] > - progress->title = title; > + progress->title = "Reticulating splines"; Heh, OK, that's a fair reductio ad absurdum of my point. I guess what I was trying to say is that we don't need to go overboard with accuracy as long as we're giving a vague sense of the work. Precision measurements can be handled through a different system. But I don't mind if you can find a way to do these kind of cascaded progress meters in a way that is pleasing to the eye and not hard to handle in the callers of the code. -Peff
