[Glass] Profiling beyond ExecBlock >> valueWithPossibleArguments: ?

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

Mariano,

Which version of GemStone are you using and have you tried this using 
ProfMonitor instead of ProMonitorTree?

Dale

On 02/03/2016 04:08 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> In Quuve we have a huge "rule engine" in which user defined "rules" 
> are evaluated over 10k companies or whatever in order to filter/screen 
> the companies that meet certain conditions. The rules are the very end 
> have a Smalltalk closure that gets evaluated.
>
> I am trying to profile some things and what happens is that I can 
> never see what happens inside the "ExecBlock >> 
> valueWithPossibleArguments:". All the profiling stops at this method. 
> For example, say the ProfMonitor tells me that "ExecBlock >> 
> valueWithPossibleArguments:" took 50% of the time, then the tree stops 
> there. I have NO CLUE what took the time inside the closure.
>
> I do get the difference between profiling closures (different 
> instances) vs profiling methods. And I also know that 
> #valueWithPossibleArguments: ends up in a primitive. But still, there 
> may exist a workaround.
>
> Just to illustrate the issue, try profiling this:
>
>
> | profMon |
> profMon := ProfMonitorTree new.
> profMon interval: 10.
>  profMon startMonitoring.
>
> *[1000 timesRepeat: [Transcript show: 'hola']] 
> valueWithPossibleArguments: #().*
>
> profMon
>         stopMonitoring;
>         gatherResults.
>
> (FileStream
>     forceNewFileNamed:
>       '/Users/mariano/gemstone'
>         , DateAndTime now printString faAsFilename)
>     nextPutAll: (profMon reportDownTo: 10);
>     cr
> You will see that in the resulting file there is NOTHING about the, 
> for example, #show: of the Transcript. The Transcript itself does not 
> appear at all. All you see are lines like:
> 27.4 5.0 executed code
> 100.0% (1) executed code [UndefinedObject]
>
>
> Thanks for any idea,
>
>
> -- 
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>
>
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