Profiler Speed

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> Right, that would probably do the trick, except I don't think there's
>> anyway to programatically turn D's profiler on or off.  So if you've
>> got a program with a big startup cost and you want to profile
>> something that happens after startup, it means you could be waiting a
>> long time to get to the thing you actually care about, and by that
>> time the profile logs are filled up with a bunch of unrelated junk.
>>
>> So I think your only hope with the D profile is to try to extract out
>> the chunk you want to profile into a separate program.  Not always
>> possible, and often when possible only painfully so.
>
> You can do profiling for specific modules only by compiling just those
> modules with profiling on.

That's a good point.  I never think of stuff like that because I use
dsss most of the time.

You want per-file flags?  Ha!  Dsss laughs at you.  Unfortunately. :-(

--bb