Re: A tip: how to display longer function names in profiler-report

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Eli.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 20:12:32 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:34:12 +0000
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > > >     ((50 left) (24 right
> > > >                ((19 right) (5 right))))

> > > > , which codes column sizes of 50, 19, and 5.  The 5 (for percentage) is
> > > > OK.  50 (defun name) is too small.  19 (number of samples) is too big -
> > > > that is broad enough to count up to 10^16 seconds, of the order of the
> > > > age of the universe.

> > > Isn't it also used for the "memory" profile?

> > No, it's not.  (See below.)

> Then how about changing the value to be better suited to the actual
> width of the fields?  E.g., just use the value you came up with?  Are
> there any downsides?

The values I am trying out give a width of 84 characters.  That would be
intolerable for somebody on an 80 char. wide window.

It seems we either want another configurable option, or Stefan K.'s idea
of using tabulated-column-mode, which would allow the column widths to
be adjusted dynamically.  But even in the latter case, we'd probably
still want a config option for the initial column widths.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).