[Freeciv-Dev] Re: a new freeciv profile

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Schaefer wrote:
> I feel the new city dialog takes longer to popup in 2.0 client,
> something that profiling wont show, because it is a rare event.
Yes.  Profiling for the client isn't as important because it's not 
overall runtime we're concerned with, it's the latency of specific events.
> Does your profiler allow you to break up calls to pf_next by caller? I
> guess it will be called a lot by AI planning?!?
This type of profile is usually created by gprof, after compiling using 
gcc with the -pg flag.  A gprof profile has a full breakdown of callers 
and callees of each function.  You can search the archives for some 
semi-recent gprof profiles.
However I made this with oprofile, a Linux kernel-level tool.  For some 
reason it doesn't create the call graph that gprof usually makes.  Maybe 
I'll find out why.
-jason