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Some tracepoints can be installed as 'slow' tracepoints (using traps like breakpoints), while others can be 'fast' tracepoints (using code patching and jumps). It would be nice to have a visual indicator like a decorator to show the user if the tracepoint is a fast tracepoint or a slow one. The way I'm planning on supporting fast tracepoint in bug 346320 is that a tracepoint will be fast or slow, for a specific launch/target. Therefore, the same tracepoint could be fast for one launch while slow for another. This complicates the adding of a decorator because we don't handle multi-target breakpoints/tracepoints well at this time. Say I launch a session which installs a tp as a fast tracepoint. We add a decorator that shows the fact that it is a fast tp. If I then launch another session, but that this new session installs the tp as a slow tracepoint, it will no longer be clear from the decorator if the tp is a fast or a slow one. Once we have 'enhanced breakpoint support' as we have been discussing in the multicore debug workgroup, we should be able to address this issue better.
