CompileTime performance measurement

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 17:15:54 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 17:03:30 UTC, Stefan Koch 
> wrote:
>>
>> I thought of the same thing a while back.
>> However I have had the time to decipher the gprof data-format 
>> yet.
>> Is there another profile-format for decent visualization tools 
>> exist ?
>
> I was just using that as an example of what we might want to 
> output as text.
> e.g. 
> https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/gprof/Flat-Profile.html
>
> I wasn't saying that we should mimic gmon.out file format, I 
> don't think that buys us much.

I disagree anything which allows to use existing visualization 
and correlation will be a major win.
If I am going to write a profiler it should have pretty charts.
Also the gnu guys probably put a lot thought into their format.