[MLton] profiling question

[Lukasz S Ziarek]

I decided to just use my own counters and create variables that I append
into the program. The only thing I am not sure about is how to send my
counters to stdout or a file.

Luke

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Lukasz S Ziarek wrote:

> I read the profiling chapter in the users guide and it details very well
> how to get time and space data, but I am interested in something slightly
> easier to collect and was wondering how to use the profiler to do so. I am
> trying to get some dynamic counts of coercions during executing to see
> where/why the flatten all case fails when it does. I also have implimented
> a flattener for refs of tuples and nested refs. Once again performance
> seems to be hit or miss. What would be the best way to use the profiler to
> keep a count of dynamic coercions. I know where all the coercion points
> are, and how many coercion points exist for a given program. However, this
> is a bit neive since there can easily be coercions in a loop. I assume
> there is a profile command I can insert to keep a dynamic count, such that
> at each coercion site it increments. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
>
> thanks,
> Luke
>
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