On 01/31/07 Muath A. Khalaf wrote: > I am trying to implement some profiling techniques and test them as > part of a small research. They are mainly a sampling based profiling for > the runtime stack and some profiling for the mono garbage collector. I > have downloaded mono 1.2, compiled it and it is running now. I wish > if somebody points me to a starting point in the code and if there is > any documentation for mono internals that would help me in completing > this project.
There is already support for a sampling profiler in the JIT: the profiling interface is defined in metadata/profiler.h. metadata/profiler.c contains a sample compiler which covers most needs and which you might want to check out. Adding support for walking a few stack frames would be nice: you should be able to do it using the context argument of the MonoProfileStatFunc callback (the type of context depends on the operating system and architecture, it is typically a struct sigcontext or struct ucontext pointer). You may also want to google for heap-prof and heap-shot for sample allocation profilers. lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list