[ikarus-users] Profiler?

[Eduardo Cavazos]

Hello,

I've been having a grand old time with the 'time' macro, investigating 
the effects of subtle code changes. But for large programs, a profiler 
would be much better.

Aziz, is there a profiler available for Ikarus? I'm more interested in 
finding out where my program is spending the majority of it's time, as 
opposed to "number of times a procedure is called". Even if you have an 
experimental one laying around, I'd be happy to try it.

I've considered running my code in another Scheme for the profiler. For 
example, DrScheme has a profiler. Also, Larceny comes with an 
experimental profiler (lib/Debugger/profile.sch). One concern I have is 
that the results would be of limited use if the different systems use 
different compilation/optimization techniques. I.e. I really should run 
the profiler on Ikarus if that's the system I want my code to run fast on.

One minor hurdle in the way of using the DrScheme profiler is that it 
requires an '#!r6rs' at the top of every file... Sure, I could add that 
but it seems silly when every other implementation I use doesn't demand it.

Ed