ANN: prof2dot, version 0.4.1

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Gregory,

Sounds fantastic. I'd love to see a single example of the resultant
.dot file, so I can figure out just how useful this might be to me.

Thanks

Neil

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Gregory Wright <gwright at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I am pleased to announce the release of prof2dot version 0.4.1,
> a graphical profiling tool for use with GHC.
>
> The program is a filter that takes the profiling output generated by running
> a GHC-compiled program with the "+RTS -px -RTS" option and turns it into
> a dot file.  (The "dot" format is a textual representation of a directed or
> undirected graph.)
> The dot file can rendered in any format supported by Graphviz's
> dot program, and the file itself can be post-processed or edited to adjust
> the
> layout.
>
> The new release fixes a number of bugs and has some significant
> improvements in its internal organization over the previous 0.3.1
> ("Premature Optimizations 'r' Us") release.
>
> Version 0.4.1 ("Triumph of Hope Over Experience") defaults to generating
> a call graph colored by number of entries into each call center.  There
> is now an option to annotate the graph edges with the triple of
> (cost center entries, ticks, allocations).  Module names are also given
> in each cost center.
>
> The latest version has been tested on the profiling output of some
> moderately
> large programs, e.g., the profile produced by a "darcs get" of the entire
> ghc repository:
>
>        $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc +RTS -px -RTS
>
> There is also better error reporting of parser errors and consistency
> checking
> of the internal graph data structure.  If anyone comes across a parse
> failure
> or an assertion failure, please report it to the author.
>
> The "dot" program from the graphviz tools is required to render the output
> of prof2dot.
> Very large graphs, or graphs with extensive annotations, can exceed the
> capabilities of dot.
>
> Prof2dot is available from Hackage in the "development" category.
>
> -Greg
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