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PyProfGen generates documentation of the profile information. It interprets the output of gprof(1) into a nice HTML files.

Screenshots

Since PyProfGen generates HTML output, there's no screenshot except the online sample. See the output here.

Documentation

Installation

To install pyprofgen 0.3, check the required softwares are present, download the source from CVS, and do the following steps:

  $ cd pyprofgen
  $ make all
  $ make install
  $ _

Usage

  $ ls
  demo.c
  $ gcc -g -pg -o demo demo.c -lc_p
  $ ./demo
  $ ls -F
  demo*   demo.c   gmon.out
  $ pyprofgen --help
  USAGE: pyprofgen [OPTION...] executable [gmon.out]
  Generate HTML documents from gmon.out

    -d DIR,               Set the output directory to DIR,
        --directory=DIR     (default: doc)
    -q, --quiet           Quite mode, (default: verbose mode)
    -h, --help            Show help message
    -v, --version         Print version information

  Report bugs to <cinsk at cinsk.org>.

  $ pyprofgen demo gmon.out
  ...
  $ ls -F
  demo*   demo.c   gmon.out   prof/
  $ elinks prof/html/index.html	# use your favorite browsers.
  $ _

Requirements

As the name implies, PyProfGen uses Python for interpreting the output of gprof(1). The two testing environments was configured like this:

Downloads

  $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.cinsk.org:/root login
  password: <RET>
  $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.cinsk.org:/root co pyprofgen
  ...
  $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.cinsk.org:/root logout