profiling Octave

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  5-Feb-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
> | has anyone experience profiling with gcc/g++?
> | I wanted to try profiling Octave to identify hot spots in the
> | interpreter, but can't get it to work.
> | I configured using configure CFLAGS="-O2 -pg" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pg"
> | LDFLAGS=-pg, then built and ran ./run-octave on a test script.
> | It produced a gmon.out file, but `gprof src/octave' does not show
> | anything. So far I was unable to find any useful information how to
> | get this working. A similar strategy works on a single sample C++ file
> | (g++ -pg, then gprof).
> | Has anyone experience with this? I would really prefer to do this with
> | GCC rather than a commercial compiler.
>
> Can gprof handle shared libraries?  You might need to build a copy of
> Octave that is statically linked.
>
> jwe
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I did a bit of profiling a year or so ago in the thread

http://www.nabble.com/speed-of-octave-symbol-table-code-to13353730.html

and can confirm that I needed a statically linked version of octave

D.

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