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