Profiling the DMD Compiler Itself

[Walter Bright]

On 5/8/2023 9:49 PM, max haughton wrote:
> Instrumentation-based profiling is almost always a worse option than sampling — 
> even if the overhead was zero the data is much less useful.

-profile does suffer from added instrumentation affecting the results (sort of 
like quantum mechanics!) but it still produces highly actionable information.