[Haskell-cafe] GDB and ticks

[Mikolaj Konarski]

Oh, might it be why my pet roguelike game is running at 20% higher
frames per second without -threaded? Would these tick calls be removed
in non-threaded RTS?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 2:18 PM Sylvain Henry <sylvain at haskus.fr> wrote:
>
> The timer isn't only used for profiling, it is used for scheduling too.
> You can disable it with `+RTS -V0` (cf
> https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/debug-info.html#tutorial)
>
> On 18/10/2021 12:47, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> >
> > I am stepping through a Haskell program using the GNU debugger GDB and
> > see function calls to handle_tick, handleProfTick, stopTicker all over
> > the place. It sounds like they would manage profiling, but I compiled
> > the executable without profiling.
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