profiling the native backend
Stephen Weeks
MLton@sourcelight.com
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:44:46 -0800 (PST)
> Since the native backend is compiled with ChunkPerFunc, will it be
> sufficient to correlate instruction addresses and which chunk it belongs
> to? If so, it seems that it would be fairly easy to wrap each emitted
> chunk in the following:
>
> FunctionName_begin:
> <normal emitted instructions here>
> FunctionName_end:
>
> From the object file, we can get the addresses of the beginning and end of
> each chunk and recover the chunk name.
This sounds fine to me.
You also need something similar for the -b option, which does stuff at the level
of local functions in CPS. -b is useful when CPS function granularity is too
large. Actually, it's probably useful to have three levels of granularity
CPS toplevel function
CPS local function
assembler basic block