Child procedures with the same name (regardless of their nesting orders) must be accumulated in the 'Global results' section Yes, agreed. I added the procedure count using same method as total time. I think the issue is a carry over from original implementation. In this example the total time for s...

Why the call tree representation depends on the procedure-name size (the only change) ? The procedure information is stored in a kind of hash table and the hash index is generated by a hashing function that operates on the procedure name. The order of procedures will follow the hashing index. So, n...

Could you give a little information on these SUBs that can be used in the case of multi-threading ? #if __FB_MT__ extern "rtlib" declare sub fbProfileLock alias "fb_ProfileLock" () declare sub fbProfileUnlock alias "fb_ProfileUnlock" () end extern #endif 'fbProfileLock...

Call fb's profiler directly to perform custom profiling and a report Also, what is the feature of 'fbc.InitProfile()' ? note: name changed in the last update These procedures expose fb's profiler as an API that can then be called directly and used to generate a profiling report based on whatever st...

Conditional generation of profiling code #pragma profile [=value]' or '#pragma push( profile [,value] )' "#pragma profile" controls the generation of profiling code. This allows optionally including or excluding sections of source code to be profiled. when #pragma profile = true, then pro...

Conditional compilation depending on profile code generation method - add '__FB_PROFILE__' __FB_PROFILE__ is an intrinsic define set to an integer to indicate the profiling method. namespace FBC enum PROFGEN_ID PROFGEN_ID_NONE = 0 PROFGEN_ID_GMON = 1 PROFGEN_ID_CALLS = 2 PROFGEN_ID_CYCLES = 3 end e...

while under the main lock. ... this profile lock Just to clarify, what is your opinion / which do you suggest the "main lock" should be? Because I am uncertain and thought about this a bit before doing what I did. The original implementation of the profiler (what I started off with) used ...

About documentation update: - Added 'Compiler Option: -profgen' page. - Waiting for new update to add '__FB_PROFILE__' and '__FB_OPTION_PROFILE__'. - @ Jeff : For the Programmer's Guide, a single page containing profiling for both gmon/gprof and fb's profiler, or 2 separate pages (the simpler in my...

thank you adeyblue for the tests Indirect calls aren't faring too well. See also external callbacks like this https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32483 where the called-back function is missed out since it's never directly called (ie ProcessEvents won't ever show up, all its data gets at...

Generating a call tree For example, with this source we tell the profiler to generate a call tree instead of timings and counts. #cmdline "-profgen fb" #include once "fbc-int/profile.bi" fbc.ProfileSetOptions( fbc.PROFILE_OPTION_REPORT_CALLTREE ) sub A print "A" end su...

Setting the output report file name at run-time New include file 'fbc-int/profile.bi' adds some API for working with profiling For example, this has the effect of setting the output filename for the profile report to "prof-hhmmss.txt" where 'hhmmss' is replaced with the current time: #incl...

Simple example, profiling a freebasic program and generating the default report: A simple example: #cmdline "-profgen fb" sub Pause100 sleep 100, 1 end sub sub Pause200 sleep 200, 1 end sub sub Pause400 sleep 400, 1 end sub for i as integer = 1 to 3 Pause100 next Pause200 Pause400 After c...

New command line option -profgen: 'fbc -profgen gmon' : enable profiling code generation for gmon/gprof 'fbc -profgen fb' : enable function call profiling using fb's profiler 'fbc -profgen cycles' : coming soon, for cpu cycle counting on some targets (currently a wip on -gen gas64 only) FYI on comma...

In latest fbc, added the first part for profiling freebasic programs.

Started a topic for this in the documentation sub forum:
Profiling freebasic programs

New profiling feature in freebasic '-profgen fb' command line option generates a profiling report "<filename[.exe]>.prf" where <filename[.exe]> is the name of the executable. To try it out: - obtain latest fbc development binaries (or build your own) - add '#cmdline "-profgen fb"...