From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15454: 24.3.50; The profiler does not show me all the run functions? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:21:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86hadaqoa4.fsf@somewhere.org> <864n9aw64k.fsf@somewhere.org> <87fvsunf64.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380061340 6035 80.91.229.3 (24 Sep 2013 22:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15454@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sebastien Vauban Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 25 00:22:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1VOazt-00005x-CG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:22:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOazs-00008k-QP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOazj-00008Q-5N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOaza-0000RW-0X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOazZ-0000RS-TC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VOazZ-0002qU-KO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:22:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:22:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15454 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15454-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15454.138006130610917 (code B ref 15454); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:22:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15454) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2013 22:21:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33457 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VOazK-0002q0-6L for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:52432) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VOazH-0002ps-PV for 15454@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([24.201.53.56]) by VL-VM-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0MTN00F1OI477F10@VL-VM-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for 15454@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:21:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 89A0C66086; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:21:50 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <87fvsunf64.fsf@engster.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:78721 Archived-At: >> The profiler is based on sampling, so it can definitely "miss" things, >> especially if we don't spend much time in them. > That's my experience, too. Reducing profiler-sampling-interval usually > helps, though. It might. But a sampling profiler is fundamentally not very well adapted to the task. `elp' or Edebug might be a better choice. In this case, the better option is probably to M-x debug-on-entry RET write-region RET, but of course, if you don't know that "writing a file" goes (pretty much unavoidably) through write-region you won't come up with this idea. Stefan