Profiling

[Philippe Sigaud]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 24-Jan-2014 20:31, Philippe Sigaud пишет:
>
>> I'm trying to use the `-profile` flag for DMD and, without any
>> documentation, I can't really understand the resulting log files:
>>
>> * They contain only mangled names. Is there a way to get demangled,
>> human-readable symbols?
>>
> pipe it though ddemangle tool. I though it was shipped with compiler.

Maybe it is :-) I never used it, though.
Will it automatically demangle all mangled symbols it finds? Can I use
it on other outputs with mangled symbols?



>> * Can someone tell me what the numbers means?
>
>
> Ticks spent in this function. One column specifies inclusive time (the whole
> call-tree of that function) another one exclusive - time spent exactly in
> this function not its children.

OK. I get it.


>> Is there a page somewhere on dlang.org that explains how to use the
>> profiler?
>
>
> http://digitalmars.com/ctg/trace.html
> see Dynamic Profiling With DMD

There it is! I knew I saw some page on profiling long ago. Must have
been before the switch to dlang.org. Thanks a lot.