[Gambas-user] Profiler for Gambas projects

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hi all!
> I hope I'm not talking pure non-sense about this, but lets try...
> I was thinking about possibility to make profiler for Gambas projects.
> I readed wikipedia article about profilers (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiler_(computer_science)#Statistical_profil
> ers ),
> and I think statistical profiler would be possible solution. I really
> don't know for sure.
> If interpreter could put out time and address in bytecode, then it
> would be possible to do statistical analyze about running gambas
> project.
> (maybe there is problem to translate bytecode address to line of source
>  code..?)
> 
> Would be nice if interpreter could be compiled with optionally to act
> like profiler or normal interpreter (then no performance penalty).
> I think that would be possible with preprocessor conditionals..?
> 
> If I'm correct, then only thing left to do is GUI for the data, and
> that could be written with Gambas.
> Comments?
> 
> I think profiler is important feature, and I hope we can find other
> solution than just manual instrumentation... yes I actually do that.
> 
> 
> Jussi
> 

You mean something like valgrind/callgrind, but for the Gambas bytecode?

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Benoît Minisini