How's the integration of DWARF support coming along?

[Johan Tibell]

Yes, it doesn't use any code modification so it doesn't have runtime
overhead (except when generating the actual trace) or interfere with
compiler optimizations. In other words you can actually have it enabled at
all time. It only requires that you compile with -g, just like with a C
compiler.


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is this stack trace support different than what we have currently?
> (e.g. the one implemented with GHC.Stack and cost centers)
>
> ---
> Ömer Sinan Ağacan
> http://osa1.net
>
>
> 2014-08-13 18:02 GMT+03:00 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How's the integration of DWARF support coming along? It's probably one of
> > the most important improvements to the runtime in quite some time since
> > unlocks *two* important features, namely
> >
> >  * trustworthy profiling (using e.g. Linux perf events and other
> > low-overhead, code preserving, sampling profilers), and
> >  * stack traces.
> >
> > The former is really important to move our core libraries performance up
> a
> > notch. Right now -prof is too invasive for it to be useful when
> evaluating
> > the hotspots in these libraries (which are already often heavily tuned).
> >
> > The latter one is really important for real life Haskell on the server,
> > where you can sometimes can get some crash that only happens once a day
> > under very specific conditions. Knowing where the crash happens is then
> > *very* useful.
> >
> > -- Johan
> >
> >
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