Re: [PATCH 1/2] progress: create progress struct in 'verbose' mode

Jonathan Tan [off-list ref] writes:

I also saw some strbuf manipulation to generate the title, but I also
don't think that takes significant cycles compared to the task that
requires the progress display.

I do not think we care so much about cycles.  What I find a lot more
disturbing was that this loses conceptual clarity (e.g. "why are we
generating the title unconditionally when we know we are not going
to use it?"), and that is why in the message you are responding to I
wondered if this was a price we should accept to pay, as decided to
tie the progress and tracing closely earlier.