Re: Profiler?

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> Jeffrey Creem wrote:
> 
> 
>>Harald Korneliussen wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know of a good profiler for programs written in Ada?
> 
> 
>>If I try to make an assumption (and I could get this wrong) and assume
>>by Ada you mean GNAT and then assume that perhaps you mean Linux I can
>>say that gprof is actually an "ok" profiler. It is not great but it gets
>>the job done.
> 
> 
> Based in that same assumption, I've used successfully valgrind and
> kcachegrind with nice results, also for multitasking programs. Oprofile was
> in my list of things to look at that I never reached.


Thanks for the reminder. Since a lot of my work is still Sparc Solaris 
based I always forget to mention valgrind.

The combination of valgrind and kacachegrind is actually quite powerful 
and pr(though large programs do tend to run quite slowly under valgrind).

I also toyed with oprofile a while back and did not find it as useful 
(in the case I was working with) as valgrind/kcachegrind but I did not 
spend enough time with it to be sure.