Profiling without Devel::DProf

Ovid has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Devel::DProf is a wonderful module. It's also a petulant brat and is given to segfault if it thinks you're looking at it funny. My experience with this love/hate relationship has led me to believe that a quick recompilation of Perl is all that is required to fix the latest segfault I'm facing.

Recompiling Perl is not an option available to me at work. Do you have any recommendations for profiling? Devel::SmallProf seems too fine-grained and the only other thing I can think of is to spider the symbol tables and add pre and post hooks to time all subroutines. That seems just awful to me (not to mention that the timing routines will throw the times off). There has got to be a better way.

Cheers,
Ovid

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Re: Profiling without Devel::DProf by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Sep 30, 2003 at 15:52 UTC
In the past I found Devel::AutoProfiler to be quite good. From the pod: `The profiler module is completely automatic in its basic mode. You simply "use" the module at the top of you main script. The module will then automatically instrument all subroutines in the code, profile each subroutine call during the execution of the script, and print out a report of usage.` [download] -- John.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Profiling without Devel::DProf by perrin (Chancellor) on Sep 30, 2003 at 16:05 UTC
Devel::Profiler is similar to DProf, but will not cause those segfaults. It has much more overhead than DProf though.	[reply]
Re: Profiling without Devel::DProf by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 30, 2003 at 15:45 UTC
Devel::Profile does per-sub profiling. Might be worth a look.	[reply]
Re: Re: Profiling without Devel::DProf by samtregar (Abbot) on Sep 30, 2003 at 21:39 UTC
That module (which was new to me, actually) uses the same DB hooks that Devel::DProf uses. As a result it is likely to be just as unstable as Devel::DProf since it's actually the DB hooks that are usually at fault when a Devel::DProf seg-faults. I second perrin's recommendation to try my Devel::DProf replacement, Devel::Profiler! ;) -sam	[reply]
Re^3: Profiling without Devel::DProf by adrianh (Chancellor) on Oct 23, 2003 at 16:11 UTC
++Devel::Profiler (having just unsuccessfully battled with a seg faulting Devel::DProf :-)	[reply]
Re: Profiling without Devel::DProf by IlyaM (Parson) on Oct 01, 2003 at 16:02 UTC
...quick recompilation of Perl is all that is required to fix the latest segfault I'm facing. Recompiling Perl is not an option available to me at work You can take sources of Devel::DProf from blead perl and compile it with your version of Perl. Last time I tried Devel::DProf from blead perl compiled and worked with 5.6.1 just fine. -- Ilya Martynov, ilya@iponweb.net CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - http://www.iponweb.net Personal website - http://martynov.org	[reply]