Re: Can you profile compiled code?
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- From: Szabolcs HorvÃt <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:22:28 -0500 (EST)
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On 2013-01-19 06:13:44 +0000, samid.hoda at gmail.com said: > I am trying to profile some compiled code using Workbench but I don't > seem to be able to get any timing data for the lines inside my compiled > function. Do I need to set an option or will Profile[] automatically > generate data for the compiled function? > > I apologize if there is a readily available source that answers my > question (I Googled and looked through the Workbench documentation), > but I couldn't find one. I am not aware of any way to profile the innards of a byte-code compiled function (which doesn't mean that there ins't a wayâ?¦) But if you compile to C (not byte code), technically yo could use a profiler for C to get some information about what needs to be sped up. I expect it'll take some work to figure out how to profile such a function effectively, as the code is generated and loaded into the kernel by default. You could split the function off and call it from a separate program (not the kernel) to profile it more easily. I have never done this personally.