Re:holistic vs mess (Score 1)

I remember when DTrace was all the hype, I read an article Sun engineers published about the architecture. One thing that shocked me was how much stuff they had to touch in order to support this. One thing, AFAICR, was a really ugly hack in the linker so I asked on one of the Sun's forums if they feel a bit dirty after all these changes across the layers. They couldn't understand what I was talking about. They kept telling me that it is really reliable, they tested it very well, and I shouldn't worry.