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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: tomo@cx4a.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp native profiler
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:41:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5069C7C1.7040206@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83txueb63s.fsf@gnu.org>

On 10/01/2012 07:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Here's one data point: on a Windows XP system based on Core i7 CPU at
> 3.4GHz, running the profiler in an optimized build makes one of the 8
> cores fully (90%) busy.

That doesn't sound good.  Is this the main thread, the one that
runs the Emacs interpreter?  Then presumably it's running at roughly
10% of effectiveness.  And if it's *not* the main thread, there
are some race condition gotchas; the profiler signal handler
should not run in parallel with the garbage collector.

It's quite worrisome that a simple counting operation, done every 15 ms,
should nearly peg a core.  Something seems amiss.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-01 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25  2:41 Elisp native profiler Stefan Monnier
2012-09-25 11:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-09-25 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 13:26   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 17:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-25 19:21       ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-25 20:12         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26  0:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26  6:16           ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-26  7:35             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26  7:59               ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-26  9:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26 22:46                   ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-27  5:55                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-27  7:01                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-27 12:37                         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-27 17:49                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-27 17:52                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-27 20:35                             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-27 20:46                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-27 22:12                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28  7:09                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-28  8:24                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28 14:11                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-28  8:03                                   ` Stephen Berman
2012-09-28  8:26                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-30  7:39                         ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-30  7:58                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-28 10:09                       ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-28 11:05                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-28 12:43                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28 14:16                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-28 20:11                               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28 20:14                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-29  2:13                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-28 12:40                         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26 17:42             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26 22:52               ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-28  9:14               ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-28 11:00                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-30  7:37                   ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-30  7:58                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-30  8:16                       ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-28 12:37                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-30 16:42               ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-30 19:23                 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-30 20:13                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-30 20:43                     ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-01  0:41                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-01  1:49                         ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-01 14:25                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-01 14:48                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 16:31                               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-01 17:19                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 16:41                               ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2012-10-01 17:52                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 17:59                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 21:12                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 22:21                                   ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-02  2:06                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-02  4:00                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-02 12:58                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-02 17:14                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03  1:27                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-02  5:28                                     ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-02 13:00                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-02 16:17                                         ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-02 13:23                                   ` Jason Rumney
2012-10-02 17:20                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 14:25                                       ` Jason Rumney
2012-10-03 17:43                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 15:10                             ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-01 10:37                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 11:25                         ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-10-01 14:59                           ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-01 14:54                         ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-01 15:28                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 16:34                             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-01 16:51                               ` Paul Eggert
     [not found]                                 ` <1349123390.31932.1@faina>
2012-10-02  6:41                                   ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-02 13:03                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03  5:11                                       ` Paul Eggert
2012-10-03 12:50                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 14:06                                           ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-03 17:22                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 17:39                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-01 16:39                             ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-30 22:28                     ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-30 22:26                   ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-26  7:39         ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-26 14:33           ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-26 18:58             ` Ivan Andrus
2012-09-27  1:11               ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-25 20:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26  0:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26  0:30       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-26  1:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26  7:41       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26 12:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26 13:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26 13:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26 17:49               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26 19:31                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-26 20:20                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26 22:50                     ` Tomohiro Matsuyama
2012-09-27  4:02                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-30  7:32                         ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-29 15:24                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-29 16:06                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-29 16:18                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-29 20:17                       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-30 15:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-25 13:40   ` Juanma Barranquero

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