On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:17 PM, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Looking in the Makefile, I just find support for coverage reports using > gcov. Whatever is there with "profile" in it seems to be for > profile-based compilation rather than using gprof. > > Now since I've managed to push most of the runtime for basic git-blame > operation out of blame.c proper, it becomes important to figure out > where most of the remaining runtime (a sizable part of that being system > time) is being spent. Loop counts like that provided by gcov (or am I > missing something here?) are not helpful for that, I think I rather need > the kind of per-function breakdown that gprof provides. > > Is there a reason there are no prewired recipes or advice for using > gprof on git? Is there a way to get the work done, namely seeing the > actual distribution of call times (rather than iterations) using gcov so > that this is not necessary? Would perf help? No changes required, and almost no overhead, I think. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html