profiling bug understood
Henry Cejtin
henry@sourcelight.com
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:20:17 -0600
I agree that the name of the file should change from gmon.out since the
format is different.
As to doing it in ML, I thought about it, but I don't think it can quite
work. The problem is that ML signal handlers are only called at `safe'
points, which isn't right for profiling stuff. If you go to C code which
grinds for a while, then during that time no ML handler will be invoked.
This can easily take more than .01 CPU seconds, and that would mean tick
lost. I don't see any solution to that. A bit sad.