From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Profiling *entire* Emacs Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206978072 22617 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2008 15:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:41:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 17:41:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JgM8H-0004z5-EW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:41:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgM7f-0001RB-Cc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.227.15.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1206974476 29649 127.0.0.1 (31 Mar 2008 14:41:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=150.227.15.253; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071022 Epiphany/2.20 Firefox/2.0.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 netcache (NetCache NetApp/6.1.1RC1) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157535 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52906 Archived-At: On 31 Mar, 13:44, Nordl=F6w wrote: > Hey, there! > > I looking for a way to profile (instrument) entire Emacs preferrably > including both built-in- and lisp-functions. Is this possible? The > instrumentation built into Emacs does not seem be built for profiling > entire Emacs. Is there another way? Or is the only feasable way to > build Emacs with debug-symbols and run it through gprof or oprofile? > > The main reason for desire is that my fancy additional font-locking > for different classes of operators, braces, function calls, etc are > very useful but far too slow. > > Thanks in advance, > Nordl=F6w At least for the x86 port couldn't we use a uint64_t performance counter (using the x86 instruction rdtsc) that measures the number of clock cycles the CPU has spent inside the function? /Nordl=F6w