space profiling
Matthew Fluet
mfluet@intertrust.com
Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:57:26 -0700 (PDT)
> I just realized that the space profiling is definitely going to have a real
> problem with overflowing the bins. If I have a hot loop allocating lots of
> junk, it isn't hard for one location to be responsible for more than 2^32
> bytes of allocation. This seems like another argument for going for the
> procedure call, and having the linked list use 64 bits worth of counter (plus
> 32 bits for the link). This way you are safe from wrapping.
Yeah, the overflow might be an issue. This would require additional
changes to mlprof.