Subject: Re: [boost] Measuring compile time performance
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-17 11:00:48
AMDG
Joel de Guzman wrote:
> time is good enough for benchmarking. OTOH, Steven's perl sript
> is nice because it can (as he says) actually gather info when
> templates are being instantiated. I haven't used it yet, but it
> seems to be just the tool we need for profiling templates.
> Steven, please tell us more about your script.
The scripts are actually a combination of bjam + perl + C++.
At the moment, the only thing that it does reliably is to
count the number of times each template is instantiated.
A month or two ago, I tried to make it produce a gprof-like
call graph by parsing the instantiation backtraces, but it
doesn't really work, and I broke gcc support in the process.
Hmmm, I'll try to fix this over fall break.
In Christ,
Steven Watanabe