Re: Sample Matlab profiler output

[Richard]

On 15/07/2011 15:08, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 15 July 2011 05:36, Richard<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > When you use the profiler in Matlab it is generally done through a
> > standalone GUI which calls profile for you.
> I don't know if that's how it's generally done. The guy who provided
> me with the profiler output said he never used the Matlab GUI much. I
> don't think it's so important to worry right now about how the Matlab
> GUI for profiling works as it is to make sure we collect the same (or
> more!) information and then somehow present it nicely, whether gprof
> output to process later with some other tool, or some other format we
> can think of, and we have the same callable functions as Matlab.

I wasn't implying the profiler GUI was essential or needed at this 
point. I've certainly never used the profiler without the GUI though, 
perhaps I'm unusual. Obviously it is much more importent to have the 
profile function.

> > personally I would leave profile as it is (since one of aims of
> > octave is to match the matlab syntax in most cases) and have a
> > separate function do the text display, or alternatively add an
> > option to profshow.
> What do you mean, "as it is"? As the code that Daniel just submitted?

Well, I assumed you will be matching the matlab profile function syntax, 
and that this will be the ultimate aim. I therefore meant 'as the matlab 
syntax is'.

> > If doing a text display I would consider having an option of a text
> > file to output to, as the results could be a hell of a lot of text
> > to display in the output window in many cases.
> If there's too much text, that's what pagers are for. But I don't
> generally see people wanting to see profiler output in plaintext
> formats. Plaintext is usually something you feed to gprof or whatever
> else we come up with that then produces the graphs and the summaries.
>
> - Jordi G. H.

Sure, I was just throwing in some (possibly useless) thoughts. Feel free 
to ignore.

 Incidentally I'm really glad you guys are working on this, it will be 
a great addition! So thanks.



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