[Help-smalltalk] Re: profiling for gst

[Paolo Bonzini]

> I am writing a byte code profiler for gst and had preliminary success. 
> Right now it can record detail call graph and number of byte code 
> executed in each method and export a report that is compatible with 
> callgrind (valgrind) thus viewable with kcachegrind. 

Cool.  I had a minimal profiler based on Bags, but it didn't record
callgraphs.

> It will be small (~100 lines of c code and ~200 lines of smalltalk) and 
> intimate to the virtual machine so I think the best place for it to be 
> is in the gst distribution itself. Is something like this desired? If 
> so, I can polish it up, refresh it with the latest git head and post it 
> as a couple of patches.

Of course.  Anything contributed is acceptable.

However, you'll need to sign copyright papers.  I'll follow up privately.

Paolo