Talk:Trace

Hey, howcome no info on tracing as in putting a semitransparent sheet over an image and copying it?


 * Mentioned at the end of tracing, but we don't have a tracing paper article yet. Charles Matthews 08:18, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Merge
No, don't merge this with tracing. Several of the meanings are only loosely related. Trace in mathematics translated the German Spur (like spoor); while there is a tracking theme to this, it is too much of a stretch. Anyway, trace as a noun should be separate. Charles Matthews 11:58, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree. No merge but maybe a notice at the begining, something like "you may also be looking for tracing"- David Björklund (talk) 02:43, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it may be a case by case matter.
 * eg, For computing: The networking command "trace" makes sense to be merged with the tracing, which is the result of it.
 * But for chess, I am not sure that the word tracing in itself has any meaning. Laurent Elens 14:50, 1 Janvier 2006 (UTC)

Manual of Style
Unless there are any substantive objections, I'm going to reformat this disambiguation page to follow Manual of Style (disambiguation). This means taking out the section headers, removing most of the wikilinks, and removing entries that don't aid navigation, among other details. This will result in a lot of information being pulled out. Possibly I might move these into stubs if the subject seems encyclopedic, possibly the information will just be removed.

Anything I should know before I begin, or any particular concerns about how I go about slicing and dicing? &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 06:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Done. Leave feedback here. &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 01:44, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Track
A trace may also be a track, trackway, trail, passage, way, path, etc. Unfree (talk) 21:44, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

yet another kind of trace
Is there an article, or a section of an article, that discusses the kind(s) of "trace" briefly mentioned in the following articles?:
 * "performance problems in parallel programs (...) often depend on the time relationship of events, thus requiring a full trace to get an understanding of what is happening." -- profiling (computer programming)
 * "project team members studying traces of programs running on System/370 mainframes" -- IBM 801
 * "a specific execution of the program (for a given execution trace)." -- program slicing
 * "Branch trace is ... is an abbreviated instruction trace" -- branch trace

I came to this disambiguation page in order to find an article that goes into more detail on this kind(s) of "trace". However, the kind of trace alluded to in those articles doesn't seem to be a "stack trace" or any of the other 5 kinds of "trace" currently mentioned in the "Computing and electronics" section of this disambiguation page.

What Wikipedia article would be most appropriate for starting a section describing this type of trace? --DavidCary (talk) 23:15, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * At least the first 3 of those 4 definitely refer to stack trace.&#32;-- Fyrael (talk) 06:39, 30 December 2020 (UTC)