[Mesa-dev] gprof

[Jose Fonseca]

----- Original Message -----
> On 06/12/2012 03:35 PM, Frank Henigman wrote:
> > I see in the list archives that gprof support was pulled a few
> > years ago.
> > Anyone remember why?  Is there any chance of working today?
> > I tried compiling with -pg but haven't manage to get any profiling
> > info yet.
> 
> I doubt anyone has used gprof on Mesa in years so any old support for
> it had probably rotted.

Yep.
 
> If you google for "linux profiling" you'll probably find a few other
> alternatives.

My recommendation for profiling these days is linux perf[1] + gprof2dot [2]

[1] http://perf.wiki.kernel.org/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/Gprof2Dot#linux_perf

Jose