Re: [Caml-list] Automated Instrumentation for Profiling

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

Have you considered porting ocamlviz to ppx?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Kenneth Adam Miller
<kennethadammiller@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, I'm looking to do some performance profiling of some libraries and
> tools. I would like some tools that are more language facilitated than an
> alternative of using something like oprofile because while oprofile is good,
> you can only guess at what is consuming the most time in your actual ocaml
> source because all the function names have been lost by that time.
>
> I found ocamlviz, and that seems pretty good, but I'm looking for something
> else because we plan to move away from using camlp4 toward ppx. Introducing
> this will mean an additional hurdle to overcome once the transition is
> complete in terms of customizing the build chain twice.
>
> In any case, I guess what I'd really like to know is:
>
> 1) How good are the ocamlcp and ocamloptp tools and how would you get a
> vanilla oasis/ocamlbuild combo to easily start using them instead?
>
> 2) Are there any ppx based profiling tools out there? I need both memory and
> time profiling to be done. OCamlviz was great because it had a graph-I don't
> necessarily need a dedicated gui, but some way to visualize the data would
> be very helpful.