Re: ANN: prof2dot, version 0.4.1

Hi Neil, Here's the (compressed) dot file from using darcs to get the whole ghc repo. It was generated by # prof2dot darcs.prof > darcs.dot The structure of the file is lines defining the edges followed by lines defining the nodes, optionally followed by subgraph definitions that group the nodes into modules. If there is a format that would make post- processing easier, I can change it. -Greg On Aug 5, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

Hi Gregory,

Sounds fantastic. I'd love to see a single example of the resultant .dot file, so I can figure out just how useful this might be to me.

Thanks

Neil

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Gregory Wright wrote:

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I am pleased to announce the release of prof2dot version 0.4.1, a graphical profiling tool for use with GHC.

The program is a filter that takes the profiling output generated by running a GHC-compiled program with the "+RTS -px -RTS" option and turns it into a dot file. (The "dot" format is a textual representation of a directed or undirected graph.) The dot file can rendered in any format supported by Graphviz's dot program, and the file itself can be post-processed or edited to adjust the layout.

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Prof2dot is available from Hackage in the "development" category.

-Greg _______________________________________________