low-level profiling

[Nicolas Frisby]

OK. I added a blurb on the wiki page.


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Nicolas Frisby <nicolas.frisby at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks for rallying everyone! I made a bit of a breakthrough while trying
>> to pinpoint where the linker is invoked.
>>
>> Here's the situation:
>>
>>   * If I use nofib's "make" command to build the text, the executable
>> does not have the function symbols in its .text section. The .o files do
>> have them.
>>
>>   * If I use ghc --make instead, the symbols survive in the executable.
>>
>> I'm not up to sleuthing out the details at the moment. Should I open a
>> Trac ticket?
>>
>
> Sounds like make for nofib strips the executables after they are created.
> That probably makes sense if nofib also measures executable sizes, but it
> might screw you up here. Using ghc --make (command copied form whatever
> nofib uses) is probably the right thing to do while you're debugging
> any performance issues.
>
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