[Haskell-cafe] SoC idea: interactive profiling

2009-03-22 Thread Patai Gergely
Hello all, I entered a little proposal in the issue tracker: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1570 As I see it, the graphical part could be a warm-up exercise with an already useful product, and interaction with the rts would be the actual challenge. Reasoning about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC idea: interactive profiling

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
yep, sounds great to me :-) although with some hacks one can already have a poor mans real time interface for heap profiling: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/hp2ps.html#id2677301 I agree that the effect of laziness can be very hard to grasp, sometimes it even feels that I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC idea: interactive profiling

2009-03-22 Thread Alex Ott
Hello PG == Patai Gergely writes: PG Hello all, I entered a little proposal in the issue tracker: PG http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1570 PG As I see it, the graphical part could be a warm-up exercise with an PG already useful product, and interaction with the rts

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC idea: interactive profiling

2009-03-22 Thread Donnie Jones
Hello Gergely, Last Summer, I also proposed a Google SOC project for profiling, called Parallel Profiling Support for GHC. This project was denied for the Google SOC mostly due to the scope of the project and the concern that the project would take far longer than the Summer. As this project

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC idea: interactive profiling

2009-03-22 Thread Patai Gergely
although with some hacks one can already have a poor mans real time interface for heap profiling: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/hp2ps.html#id2677301 I'm aware of that, even did it myself a few times. That's part of the reason why I want something better. ;) I agree

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC idea: interactive profiling

2009-03-22 Thread Patai Gergely
Last Summer, I also proposed a Google SOC project for profiling, called Parallel Profiling Support for GHC. This project was denied for the Google SOC mostly due to the scope of the project and the concern that the project would take far longer than the Summer. Yes, I'm aware of that trap.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC idea: interactive profiling

2009-03-22 Thread Donnie Jones
Hello Gergely, 2009/3/22 Patai Gergely patai_gerg...@fastmail.fm: Last Summer, I also proposed a Google SOC project for profiling, called Parallel Profiling Support for GHC.  This project was denied for the Google SOC mostly due to the scope of the project and the concern that the project