RE: [DotGNU]A small profiler (call graph) patch for ilrun

[James Mc Parlane]

This is most impressive. great stuff..

I've put the image up here.

http://set-top.net/~t3rmin4t0r/helloworld.jpeg.gz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gopal V [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:25 AM
> To: DotGNU Mailing List
> Subject: [DotGNU]A small profiler (call graph) patch for ilrun
> 
> 
> Hi All,
>       This is a small patch for ilrun to be able to give a digraph
> of the execution of a program..
>       
>       The cool concept behind this is to introduce "dynamic" call
> graphs instead of static call graphs ... So you know exactly 
> how many times a method is called and from where ...
> 
> It gives the output in the format for the "dot" program that came
> with graphviz ... It gives an enormous .jpg , I don't like the 
> JPG ... but the idea is cool ... I'm not absolutely certain
> that this is the right way , but I did it :)
> 
> I think ``someone'' might be interested in making this an RDF 
> triple set and storing it away ;)  ... 
> 
> Anyway, this was attempted because 
> 
> Console.WriteLine(42);
> 
> gave me 7302 hashtable lookups , 3000+ CharFill operations and similar
> junk in the method profiles .. I just wanted to add in some way to 
> track that back to the source...
> 
> People testing this will need to enable the IL_PROFILE_CVM_METHODS in
> engine/cvm_config.h to get the -C or "--call-graph" options to work.
> 
> Hopefully someone might find it useful... (and post the call graph of
> HelloWorld on their website , coz my version came to 543 kb !)
> 
> Gopal
> -- 
> The difference between insanity and genius is measured by success
>