Re: [Valgrind-developers] Images in Valgrind manual? [Was:Re: [PATCH] callgrind/callgrind.h]

[Josef W. <Jos...@gm...>]

On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Josef Weidendorfer
> <Jos...@gm...> wrote:
> > However, recently I asked Julian if he is fine with a short chapter about KCachegrind,
> > and he agreed that this could be useful.
> 
> The reason that I suggested to add some info about the way KCachegrind

Ah, I thought the question was how to embed images into the manual, for your own tool ;-)

> presents profiling data is that as far as I know this is a unique
> feature.

Yes, treemaps are not used often. But they are not really easy to understand without
some explanation. A 1-dimensional split-up of cost probably would be enough in most cases
and should be totally self-explaining.

However, I agree that KCachegrind proved to be quite a good experimental prototype.

> I do not know of any other profiler GUI that is as good as 
> KCachegrind. I consider Callgrind + KCachegrind as a strong
> combination, but currently this is not emphasized in  the callgrind
> manual.

This is true.

Josef


> 
> Bart.
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