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From: Jeremy F. <je...@go...> - 2005-02-11 23:09:26
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On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:13 -0600, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Julian Seward wrote: > > > It's dubious that the profiling can be made to work portably/reliably > > now, and in any case since the JIT has been sawn off and made into a > > library, profiling at least that part of the system is easy anyway > > (by using a standalone test driver). So we may as well forget about > > it, and nuke the associated code. > > It would be nice to have some kind of system-wide profiling, though. oprofile is getting very useful for this kind of thing. New versions can now take snapshots of the stack when they sample, so you get more than a simple flat profile. If we can get it to generate some useful profile data for generated code, it should cover almost all of our profiling requirements... J |