Re: Looking for help profiling GNUstep programs

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 30 juin 05 à 15:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :

> It's many years since I tried profiling stuff with 'make  
> profile=yes' and using gprof
>
> As far as I can recall. mostly when I did it, I was generally  
> optimising the base library, and statically linking it with a tiny  
> tool written to exercise the bit of code I was interested in.
>
> Now I need to profile some real world programs which dynamically  
> link in the base library and several other Objective-C libraries,  
> and I'm having trouble.  In spite of building all the ObjC  
> libraries with 'make debug=yes profile=yes', when I run gprof on  
> the gmon.out produced by the program, I get nothing reported for  
> the base library or any of my own objc libraries (which do most of  
> the work).
>
> Am I doing something stupid?
> Does anyone have experience with profiling share objc libraries  
> (I'm working on debian unstable intel).

If you have a Mac OS X system, why not use Shark to profile GNUstep…  
It is truly excellent, I used it with Nicolas Roard on GNUstep-gui in  
February.

Quentin.

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