On 12/05/2011 01:30, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote:
I'm taking profile for my program with -auto-all -caf-all. I found
that I don't understand what "entries" means.
An IO function in my program should be called N times but "entries"
shows 3N. I inserted putStrLn in that function and ensured that it was
called just N times.
Please tell me what "entries" mean exactly.
It's not clear what "entries" means exactly. GHC's profiler is lacking
a semantics, so what it actually does is anyone's guess; fortunately it
does something more-or-less reasonable often enough to be useful. We
have tickets that point out some problems like the one you reported, e.g.:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4414
my long-term hope is that we can figure out a good semantics for
cost-centre stacks, implement it, and close all these tickets (at the
same time we'd find out how to get sensible stack-traces too, albeit
only in profiling mode). This is a wall I've bounced off a few times
though.
Cheers,
Simon
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