Re: FAction

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "FW" == Fred Wan <address@hidden> writes:

FW> I have replaced the action creation procedure through FAction
FW> instances by Action instances for jheatbugs and it works fine as
FW> well. Even to the extent that I'm wondering what the (time)
FW> benefit is for using FAction (as was replied to my query, FAction
FW> supposedly offers the advantage of reducing the number of
FW> indirections) which brings me to the following question. Are there
FW> methods in Swarm to measure real-time performance to make
FW> optimizations in the code visible?

The best way to measure these things is to use a JVM that is equipped
with profiling code.  There isn't really a standard command-line option
for this, though.  With Windows and JDK 1.3, you can get
a profile like so: 

  $ jdkswarm -Xrunhprof:cpu=samples StartHeatbugs



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