Re: Profiling wine

[Ove Kaaven]

tir, 29.07.2003 kl. 13.55 skrev Jeremy White:
> > How about giving oprofile a spin ?
> >
> > It is very good at pinpointing runtime hotspots. I just wanted to give 
> > a suggestion on how to get going with profiling right now without the 
> > need to wait for wineprofile functionality.
>
> I'm told (and have been persuaded of this), that Wine's internal
> structures preclue a 'normal' profiler from working properly,
> hence the need for a Wine specific one.

Then again, oprofile is not a normal profiler, it's a kernel-based one.
I've tried it, it "works", but it seems that it requires a 2.5 kernel in
order to be really useful (it's not able to generate call graphs with
2.4)