[Haskell-cafe] [Fwd: profiling in haskell]

Tim Chevalier catamorphism at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 15:25:09 EDT 2008


2008/9/8 Vlad Skvortsov <vss at 73rus.com>:
> Posting to cafe since I got just one reply on beginner at . I was suggested to
> include more SCC annotations, but that didn't help. The 'serialize' function
> is still reported to consume about 32% of running time, 29% inherited.
> However, functions called from it only account for about 3% of time.
>

If "serialize" calls standard library functions, this is probably
because the profiling libraries weren't built with -auto-all -- so the
profiling report won't tell you how much time standard library
functions consume.

You can rebuild the libraries with -auto-all, but probably much easier
would be to add SCC annotations to each call site. For example, you
could annotate your locally defined dumpWith function like so:

dumpWith f = {-# SCC "foldWithKey" #-} Data.Map.foldWithKey f []
    docToStr k (Doc { docName=n, docVectorLength=vl}) =
    (:) ("d " ++ show k ++ " " ++ n ++ " " ++ (show vl))

Then your profiling report will tell you how much time/memory that
particular call to foldWithKey uses.

By the way, using foldl rather than foldl' or foldr is almost always a
performance bug.

Cheers,
Tim

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