Thanks for the ping, Ryan.

It appears there's some bustage going on in the underlying profiler
affecting b2g and Fennec; being tracked in bug 1167230 [0]. We are slated
to have the reworked performance tool be marketed and announced for the
June 2nd release, so this is definitely high priority.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1167230

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:41 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett <jry...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Adding Jordan and Victor, who may have more details on the DevTools option.
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Wilson Page <wp...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > AFAIK there are two ways to profile an app:
> >
> > 'profile.sh' - Build a custom B2G with the `MOZ_PROFILING=1` flag and use
> > `profile.sh` script in the B2G repo.
> >
> > A very labour intensive process, taking hours to prepare for. The results
> > are hard to interpret, that only a few Gecko engineers seem to to be
> able to
> > derive meaning from.
> >
> > 'Devtools' - Use the devtools 'Performance' profiler via WebIDE.
> >
> > Seems to crash the app being profiled and leaves the devtools
> unresponsive.
> >
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> help
> > others in the future once I have reached enlightenment :)
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