From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE23EBC59 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:09:21 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiUCACopjUtIDtybkWdsb2JhbACRHYIQh1UIFQEBAQEJCwoHEwMfrlCBXoUcLYhKAQEDBYI/gjcEgxc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,569,1262559600"; d="scan'208,217";a="58102293" Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 Mar 2010 00:09:21 +0100 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so173963fgg.9 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:09:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; bh=i/fesyaEs+8S5stM+mfa4wmkvCRHd95APYC+x/QFLEc=; b=VqaDm2EU6s9yNFChFRzlIzVvWswrC5IIrmH723Bc2t3uRXLfsa6o0uqTNz3+mH88WH YZhw3/gvKIr0w+FJJxnucsddv3hR+CZqLHRHb4dHB2T6i00HfUguBwsyzINuSUWfWuAA mZnoaY5EGX4fTS1k6QNyci9pEyBvy8ALIDf7s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:mime-version:subject :date:references:x-mailer; b=dg3AjtBE6PpWnkEtlQxOYc69a0BQZXJO7fg141T/oU0jPDKRv+HLOJJbz6hwDdHtfF XmPBl7VUAFrTlMLZE5b9R/scUU6jB+VLFa88NMmFi8ue0wwSD0lAXdLZsK/Kb1PLx1FI Z9YdLluiVPGsvtDbLU390K+ijyR7qZlaICYes= Received: by 10.87.70.31 with SMTP id x31mr1065934fgk.19.1267571358333; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:09:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp-wired-107.corp.631h.metaweb.com (nat08.metaweb.com [208.68.111.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm3230406fxm.7.2010.03.02.15.09.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:09:17 -0800 (PST) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Message-Id: <64042246-59C5-4B75-B5A9-6FDF7A2814AE@gmail.com> From: Warren Harris To: Sylvain Le Gall In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-3--646136975 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: gc overhead Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:09:15 -0800 References: <37150F07-8902-464A-9A0E-44A0C424C87B@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Spam: no; 0.00; warren:98 instrument:98 warren:98 instrument:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 000000:97 gprof:03 gprof:03 overhead:04 quite:08 quite:08 looks:08 looks:08 --Apple-Mail-3--646136975 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > You can have a look at: > http://ocamlviz.forge.ocamlcore.org > > This allow to instrument your code and watch GC activity. I think that > with a little a little help on program side, you can be quite precise > about GC without using gprof at all. This should also be more > lightweight than gprof. Sylvain, Thanks! This looks very promising. I'll give it a try. Warren --Apple-Mail-3--646136975 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:

You can have a look at:
http://ocamlviz.forge.ocamlcore.org

This allow to instrument your code and watch GC activity. I think that
with a little a little help on program side, you can be quite precise
about GC without using gprof at all. This should also be more
lightweight than gprof.

Sylvain,

Thanks! This looks very promising. I'll give it a try.

Warren

--Apple-Mail-3--646136975--