ghc Profiler

[Stephan Reiff-Marganiec]

Dear ghc friend or developper,

I am using the ghc profiler to do time profiling, and sadly cannot get
the relevant detail out of the tool.

I compile the program using ghc -auto -caf-all -prof and get an
exectuable. All that is fine and I can also use other compile options.

When running, the document suggests that one uses

+RTS -p -RTS, and again that works fine. Unfortunately it only delivers
percentages of time, no raw ticks. So if a particluar CCS took less than
0.1 percent it will not occur.

So, one should be able to use -P instead to obtain actual figures as
well, but the resulting .prof file is identical to the -p one.

Bug? or is it me??

Is there any other way of obtaining good time profiles?

a quick reply would be appreciated

Stephan

ps: I am using ghc 5.02 (although the same problem occurs with ghc 4.08)

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 Stephan Reiff-Marganiec                    e-mail:      sreiff@dcs.gla.ac.uk
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