Re: [Chicken-users] Profiling large programs

[Elf]

How large is the generated C file when profiling is not enabled?

-elf

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 address@hidden wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Compile times of chicken increase considerably when adding -profile.
> For example,
> 17 hours on a recent 2.4GHz processor instead of just some minutes
> without -profile.
> Furthermore, the resulting C file is 1.3GB so that it cannot be
> compiled by gcc. Here is the start of the resulting C file:
>
> /* Generated from nallch.scm by the CHICKEN compiler
>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org
>   2008-07-08 18:46
>   Version 3.3.1 - linux-unix-gnu-x86   [ manyargs dload ]
>   SVN rev. 10820  compiled 2008-05-14 on ki220 (Linux)
>   command line: nallch.scm -debug-level 0 -optimize-level 1 -profile 
> -output-file nallch3.c
>   used units: library eval data_structures ports extras srfi_69 profiler posix 
> srfi_1
> */
> ...
>
> Does anybody have any hints how to profile a large program?
> (Separate compilation is not an option for me, currently.)
>
> Ciao
> Sven