profiling gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Sounds like guile is unhappy being profiled..  This is probably due to
> > the fact that guile is the "application" being executed and probably
> > is not actually initializing the profiler properly.  At least that's
> > my un-educated guess.
> 
> Ugh, so then the solution may be to recompile guile with -pg?  Yuck.

That might be the solution; I don't know for sure.  Another option is
to use a run-time profiler instead of a compile-time profiler.

> We have "--enable-profile" in the possible parameters to pass to
> configure... so I take it that at one time this worked?  Or, has it
> always been that guile needed to be -pg-ified?  Or, is this just some
> standard configure option and it never worked well with GnuCash?

Remember that 1.6 was compiled as a standalone application, not a
"guile script", so I suspect that the "--enable-profile" options is
from that era, and nobody actually tested it when they half-assed the
modularization effort.

> -Jon

-derek

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