From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Which platforms do/do not support cpu time profiling? Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:56:54 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <50AAFF86.4060102@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353383826 27896 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2012 03:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 04:57:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TaexY-0005X3-UO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:57:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaexO-0001TD-IW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaexM-0001Sx-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaexL-0006gw-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:34687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaexL-0006gp-9I; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348BEA60003; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:57:02 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HHMqQ9WdP8mt; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:57:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-71-189-154-249.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.154.249]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCEFBA60001; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:57:01 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154977 Archived-At: On 11/19/2012 05:25 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Which are the platforms which do/do not support this? It's pretty universal these days. BeOS doesn't support it, but that's the only platform I know offhand. > There is a configure option --enable-profiling which you might think has > something to do with this, but it doesn't. Is that option still useful, Yes. The terminology clash is unfortunate, but both things are called "profiling" so we probably should apply an adjective to the low-level profiling, e.g., "gprof style profiling", at least in the help string and perhaps in the switch itself.