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From: yba@mit-athena.ARPA (Mark H Levine)
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Subject: Re: Help wanted for lisp profile - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 21:12:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 24 21:12:43 1984
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(Refers to Franz Lisp under 4.2bsd)

I have brought up a profiling version of lisp that includes "monitor";
there are several errors in the 4.2bsd makefiles for lisp as far as
following their instructions for building with "-DPROF" and other details.

A major problem seems to be that profiling, even using "-p" with liszt,
serves only to profile the lisp interpreter itself, not the user written
routines.  [cf]fasl, load and include, and getaddress do not seem to
place the addresses of compiled or non-compiled routines into the
namelist (symbol table) that the prof(1) command will use to analyze the
monitor output (warning: this is 1 Mb in size).

There is an argument to the [cf]fasl functions to create a symbol table
with routine names and addresses they are loaded into, however it is in
printing rather than namelist format.  I'm writing a filter to create a
namelist from same.

I also have an interest in comparing notes on this subject with anyone
more informed.  Anyone interested in talking (q or a) can call me at
(617) 253-1528; afternoons (Eastern Time) are best.

(Also will look at how Opus 40 handles this; we are installing
Symbolics MACSYMA as well--same applies).

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