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[Help-smalltalk] Re: profiling for gst
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Paolo Bonzini |
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[Help-smalltalk] Re: profiling for gst |
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Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:37:41 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) |
> I am writing a byte code profiler for gst and had preliminary success.
> Right now it can record detail call graph and number of byte code
> executed in each method and export a report that is compatible with
> callgrind (valgrind) thus viewable with kcachegrind.
Cool. I had a minimal profiler based on Bags, but it didn't record
callgraphs.
> It will be small (~100 lines of c code and ~200 lines of smalltalk) and
> intimate to the virtual machine so I think the best place for it to be
> is in the gst distribution itself. Is something like this desired? If
> so, I can polish it up, refresh it with the latest git head and post it
> as a couple of patches.
Of course. Anything contributed is acceptable.
However, you'll need to sign copyright papers. I'll follow up privately.
Paolo