bug#22114: 24.5; [PATCH] Allow profiler.el to display reports after stopping

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't really understand why profiler.el insists on having the
> profiler running for providing the profile.  The much simpler patch
> below makes it possible for me to invoke profiler-report whether a
> profile is running or not.  Does it work for you?  If not, can you
> tell what I missed?
>
> --- lisp/profiler.el~4        2015-11-11 07:57:32.000000000 +0200
> +++ lisp/profiler.el  2015-12-08 17:54:27.380084700 +0200
> @@ -216,19 +216,17 @@
>
>  (defun profiler-cpu-profile ()
>    "Return CPU profile."
> -  (when (profiler-running-p 'cpu)
> -    (profiler-make-profile
> -     :type 'cpu
> -     :timestamp (current-time)
> -     :log (profiler-cpu-log))))
> +  (profiler-make-profile
> +   :type 'cpu
> +   :timestamp (current-time)
> +   :log (profiler-cpu-log)))

[etc]

The discussion then turned to other things (like getting in-progress
reports), but this seems like the simplest solution that solves the
originally stated problem.  But it wasn't applied -- I can do that now,
if that's convenient...

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