Yes I too used shark under mac os x
http://developer.apple.com/tools/sharkoptimize.html
I don't think it is as accurate as gprof but it helps quite a lot.

J.


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Vincent Aravantinos <
vincent.aravantinos@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Le 17 mai 11 ą 18:37, Joel Reymont a écrit :
>
>
>  Has anyone given thought to how OCaml programs can be profiled on the Mac?
>>
>> gprof on the Mac gives only call counts and no timing information.
>>
>> Using Instruments on native OCaml programs clearly shows only C functions
>> in the OCaml runtime.
>>
>
> I never really managed to profile my ocaml programs properly under OSX.
> Actually, gprof just never worked for me (didn't generate any gmon.out
> file).
> I ended up using Shark which is better than nothing.
>
> V.
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