low-level profiling

[Simon Marlow]

On 15/02/13 20:31, Johan Tibell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Nicolas Frisby
> <nicolas.frisby at gmail.com <mailto: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.

Ah yes, I usually have

STRIP=:

in my mk/build.mk

Probably a good idea to get rid of the stripping completely, it doesn't 
affect the size measurements anyway which use the 'size' command.

Cheers,
	Simon