NAME

chicken-profile — generate a report from profile-information

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

chicken-profile reads in profiling information generated by CHICKEN Scheme programs compiled with the -profile option, and generates a table listing function names and their execution times. FILENAME defaults to the ‘PROFILE.<number>’, selecting the one with the highest modification time, in case multiple profiles exist.

The program accepts following arguments:

-help

Show usage and exit.

-version

Show version and exit.

-decimals DDD

Set number of decimals for seconds, average and percent columns (three digits, default: 333).

-no-unused

Remove procedures that are never called.

-sort-by-avg

Sort output by average procedure execution time.

-sort-by-calls

Sort output by call frequency.

-sort-by-name

Sort output alpabetically by procedure name.

-sort-by-time

Sort output by procedure execution time.

-top N

Display only the top N entries.

EXIT STATUS

The chicken-profile utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

chicken(1), csc(1)

More information can be found in the CHICKEN User's Manual.

AUTHORS

The CHICKEN Team

BUGS

Submit bug reports by e-mail to chicken-janitors@nongnu.org