[squeak-dev] histogram-based profiling tools on Mac OS X?

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Sat Jul 12 01:36:32 UTC 2008


On 11-Jul-08, at 6:23 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:

> Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking for, you already have
> one installed:
> /Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/Shark.app
>
> Eg:
> http://developer.apple.com/tools/images/codeProfile.jpg
>
> Avi
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>    I'm badly in need of a histogram-based profiler for the VM I'm  
>> working
>> on.  This is something that produces a histogram of time taken  
>> against PC,
>> insead of time taken against function.

Another option would be DTrace/Instruments, if you're running Leopard.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html




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