Yes, it doesn't use any code modification so it doesn't have runtime overhead (except when generating the actual trace) or interfere with compiler optimizations. In other words you can actually have it enabled at all time. It only requires that you compile with -g, just like with a C compiler.


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan@gmail.com> wrote:
Is this stack trace support different than what we have currently?
(e.g. the one implemented with GHC.Stack and cost centers)

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2014-08-13 18:02 GMT+03:00 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> How's the integration of DWARF support coming along? It's probably one of
> the most important improvements to the runtime in quite some time since
> unlocks *two* important features, namely
>
>  * trustworthy profiling (using e.g. Linux perf events and other
> low-overhead, code preserving, sampling profilers), and
>  * stack traces.
>
> The former is really important to move our core libraries performance up a
> notch. Right now -prof is too invasive for it to be useful when evaluating
> the hotspots in these libraries (which are already often heavily tuned).
>
> The latter one is really important for real life Haskell on the server,
> where you can sometimes can get some crash that only happens once a day
> under very specific conditions. Knowing where the crash happens is then
> *very* useful.
>
> -- Johan
>
>
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