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From: John Whitington <john@coherentgraphics.co.uk>
To: Michael Hicks <mwh@cs.umd.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] performance profiling on Mac OS?
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:38:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C870FC.2030001@coherentgraphics.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFb7wiVx7w1M==3pdkTLTdWv2uCAN1jbeKssyAhNbOf5nkTVXg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Michael Hicks wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have an OCaml program that uses the C FFI extensively, and I'm trying
> to profile the overall program (both the OCaml and C parts), to figure
> out how much time is spent where.
>
> Do people have suggestions for doing profiling on Mac OS?
>
> Since it uses LLVM, and not gcc, it seems that gprof (per the OCaml
> manual) is not an option.

instruments(1) and its graphical equivalent Instruments.app come with 
XCode. It does seem to work reasonably well with OCaml code compiled and 
linked with -g. At least, not much worse than the output of gprof on 
OCaml code. There is an option in the graphical one called something 
like "Invert graph" which helps to show where most time was spent.

Or, if it's not an OS X specific program, compile it in a Linux VM and 
use gprof or similar.

Thanks,

-- 
John Whitington
Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd
http://www.coherentpdf.com/


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