Re: Elisp native profiler

[Stefan Monnier]

> In a nutshell, that thread sleeps until the timer expiration, then
> suspends the main thread, calls the SIGPROF handler, resumes the main
> thread, and goes back to sleep.  The deviation from the Posix
> semantics is that the handler runs in the context of a thread other
> than the main thread.

Isn't there another difference in that your code samples at a rate
determined by the wall-clock time rather than the cpu-time of the process?


        Stefan