I was wondering if it handles per-thread information when you have more than one thread involved. (Actually the question is not related to the graphical tool, but the announcement triggered it). Best. Cristian
2008/3/8 Gregory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am pleased to announce the first release of prof2dot, a graphical > profiling tool > for use with GHC. > > While GHC has in the past worked with graphical profiling tools, they > have been heavyweight and/or proprietary. Prof2dot is a simple tool for > converting profiling information into a graphical format, released under a > BSD3 > license. It is simple because it offloads all of the work of rendering > the graph > onto Graphviz. So you need to install the Graphviz tools in order to use > it. > > The program is a filter that takes the profiling output generated by > running > a GHC-compiled program with the "+RTS -px -RTS" option and turns it into > a dot file. (The "dot" format is a textual representation of a directed > or undirected graph.) > The dot file can rendered in any format supported by Graphviz's > dot program, and the file itself can be post-processed or edited to adjust > the > layout. > > Features of prof2dot: > > * display either the call graph (default) or the call tree, > > * colorize by cost center count, time or allocations, > > * group cost centers in the same module. > > Prof2dot installs as a typical caballized application. > Running "prof2dot -?" from the command line will give a short summary of > how to use the program and its options. > > Rendering very large graphs can exceed the internal resource limits of > dot. > You may have to compile your own version of the Graphviz tools with higher > limits > to handle these cases. > > A example of a colorized profile of a medium sized project is shown on our > company's web site: > http://antiope.com/downloads.html<http://antiope.com/downloads.html>. > Click on the small > image to download a pdf of the complete profile graph. > > Prof2dot is available from hackage or the link given above. > > > -Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > >
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