[squeak-dev] spyOnWorldFor:

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Jul 11 23:00:52 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 02:33:29PM -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Jul 8, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am trying a few things on Squeak 5.0.  In earlier versions there was
> >> AndreasSystemProfier (formerly known as QSystemProfier) and had a
> >> method called spyOnWorldFor:, which was quite useful.  I just loaded
> >> AndreasProfier-eem.11.mcz and tried it but it crashed the 5.0 all in
> >> one VM on Mac OS 10.10.
> >>
> >> Is this a known issue?  Is there an alternative to it?
> >>
> > Hi Yoshiki,
> >
> >     try an up-to-date VM.  I'd point you to Travis could but I don't see entirely green builds there right now.  So pick up the most up-to-date VM from my site.
> >
> >
> 
> Thanks.  Is there actually a reason to try AndreasSystemProfier, or
> does the MessageTally in Squeak 5.0 subsume it?
>

AndreasSystemProfier should produce significantly better profiling results,
especially with regard to measuring time spent in primitives. If you
are doing serious profiling work, I think that you will be happier with
AndreasSystemProfiler.

Dave
 


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