Profiling wine

Ove Kaaven ovek at arcticnet.no
Tue Jul 29 18:07:07 CDT 2003


tir, 29.07.2003 kl. 13.55 skrev Jeremy White:
> >  How about giving oprofile a spin ?
> > 
> >  It is very good at pinpointing runtime hotspots. I just wanted to give 
> > a suggestion on how to get going with profiling right now without the 
> > need to wait for wineprofile functionality.
> 
> I'm told (and have been persuaded of this), that Wine's internal
> structures preclue a 'normal' profiler from working properly,
> hence the need for a Wine specific one.

Then again, oprofile is not a normal profiler, it's a kernel-based one.
I've tried it, it "works", but it seems that it requires a 2.5 kernel in
order to be really useful (it's not able to generate call graphs with
2.4)





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