Hi Gregory, Sounds fantastic. I'd love to see a single example of the resultant .dot file, so I can figure out just how useful this might be to me.
Thanks Neil On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Gregory Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am pleased to announce the release of prof2dot version 0.4.1, > a graphical profiling tool for use with GHC. > > 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. > > The new release fixes a number of bugs and has some significant > improvements in its internal organization over the previous 0.3.1 > ("Premature Optimizations 'r' Us") release. > > Version 0.4.1 ("Triumph of Hope Over Experience") defaults to generating > a call graph colored by number of entries into each call center. There > is now an option to annotate the graph edges with the triple of > (cost center entries, ticks, allocations). Module names are also given > in each cost center. > > The latest version has been tested on the profiling output of some > moderately > large programs, e.g., the profile produced by a "darcs get" of the entire > ghc repository: > > $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc +RTS -px -RTS > > There is also better error reporting of parser errors and consistency > checking > of the internal graph data structure. If anyone comes across a parse > failure > or an assertion failure, please report it to the author. > > The "dot" program from the graphviz tools is required to render the output > of prof2dot. > Very large graphs, or graphs with extensive annotations, can exceed the > capabilities of dot. > > Prof2dot is available from Hackage in the "development" category. > > -Greg > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users