From: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast•ch>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Profiling support?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:44:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqgv2hag.fsf@thomasrast.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2itc2zv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:17:40 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org> writes:
> Looking in the Makefile, I just find support for coverage reports using
> gcov. Whatever is there with "profile" in it seems to be for
> profile-based compilation rather than using gprof.
[...]
> Is there a reason there are no prewired recipes or advice for using
> gprof on git? Is there a way to get the work done, namely seeing the
> actual distribution of call times (rather than iterations) using gcov so
> that this is not necessary?
No reason I'm aware of, other than that nobody ever wrote it.
Note that I wouldn't exactly be surprised if the gcov targets had
bitrotted without anyone noticing. I haven't heard of any heavy users.
I originally wrote them to do some basic test coverage analysis, but
that's about it.
--
Thomas Rast
tr@thomasrast•ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-16 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-11 11:17 Profiling support? David Kastrup
2014-02-11 13:18 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-11 14:41 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-11 15:14 ` John Keeping
2014-02-11 15:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-11 20:53 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-16 15:44 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2014-02-16 15:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-16 16:54 ` Thomas Rast
2014-02-16 17:05 ` David Kastrup
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