From: pa (Patrick A. O'Donnell)

Subject: Re: Profiling

Date: 1996-11-19 9:12


    Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:59:47 -0600
    From: Thomas Weigert <pobox.mot.com at weigert>

    I was wondering if anybody had success with using the space profiler? Here
    is the analysis results I am given:
...
      %     %     self  total            self   total  Function
     Mem.  Cum.  Kbyte  Kbyte    calls by/call by/call   name
     99.8  99.8 814128 814128                          "do_c_funcall"

    Not very helpful, right? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Well, it depends on what you're looking for.  It would seem you have
found where nearly all the allocation is being done in your code.  If
you want to find what callers of do_c_funcall are responsible for the
allocation, you can try a call tree analysis or try the following:

(push "do_c_funcall" prof:*hidden-functions*)


Good luck.

		- Patrick O'Donnell