Re: Heap profiler

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2022 at 12:03, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (profile-heap)
>
> [...]
>
>> sampled heap: 3.48865 MiB (heap size: 12.78906 MiB)
>> $5 = #t
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> It samples the GC-managed heap and counts the number and size of objects
>> of each type.  The “unknown” bit is anything that lacks a type tag, such
>> as stacks allocated for delimited continuations by ‘capture_stack’ in
>> libguile.
>
> It could nice to have it by default. For instance under ’,help profile’
> with something like ’,heap [,ph] - Profile heap memory executation’.  Or
> elsewhere as ’,help system’ close to ,gc.

+1 :-)

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Thanks,
Maxim