Re: profiling Octave

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:50 PM, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> On  5-Feb-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>
>> | has anyone experience profiling with gcc/g++?
>> | I wanted to try profiling Octave to identify hot spots in the
>> | interpreter, but can't get it to work.
>> | I configured using configure CFLAGS="-O2 -pg" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pg"
>> | LDFLAGS=-pg, then built and ran ./run-octave on a test script.
>> | It produced a gmon.out file, but `gprof src/octave' does not show
>> | anything. So far I was unable to find any useful information how to
>> | get this working. A similar strategy works on a single sample C++ file
>> | (g++ -pg, then gprof).
>> | Has anyone experience with this? I would really prefer to do this with
>> | GCC rather than a commercial compiler.
>>
>> Can gprof handle shared libraries?  You might need to build a copy of
>> Octave that is statically linked.
>>
>> jwe
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>
> I did a bit of profiling a year or so ago in the thread
>
> http://www.nabble.com/speed-of-octave-symbol-table-code-to13353730.html
>
> and can confirm that I needed a statically linked version of octave
>
> D.
>

OK, that could have occured to me. I'll try with a static version.
Thanks to all

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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