Profiling (Was: Memory residence)

Wed May 25 16:28:00 GMT 2005

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Wed, 2005年05月25日 at 15:18 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > It would be good to get some profile data on Eclipse startup so we
 > > know for sure.
 > 
 > Are there good guides for doing profiling with oprofile and/or
 > valgrind/massif against gcj compiled executable and interpreting
 > the results? It would be a great addition to our documentation/faq
 > to have all the relevant information in one place. From following
 > some of the discussions on irc I got the impression that there are
 > still some bugs/workarounds needed to get accurate results (or at
 > least that one needs very recent versions). So if someone who has
 > done some profiling could do a little writeup that would be great.
I've had no trouble at all, so I don't know where the bugs other
people found may lie.
I just start oprofile, run the code, stop oprofile, and print the
reports with opreport -l. It really is as easy as that.
Andrew.