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Re: How do you profile postscript code?

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On 2013-08-30 06:37:08 +0000, luser- -droog said:

> I posted a sorting function a few days ago. And a few others followed.
> I think it'd be fun to run these against each other. But what little
> profiling I've done has been on C code with the help of gprof, which is
> pretty automatic. I've read about how to do it, of course. You want to
> do lots of reps to "fly over the bumps" of system-load issues.
> 
> PS offers `usertime` and `realtime`. In my experience, the numbers reported
> by ghostscript's usertime weren't what I expected (though I don't remember
> the details).
> 
> So, anybody know how to do it with postscript?

The May 2003 issue of the Acumen Journal (#25) describes the 
implementation of a PostScript profiler; the article's title is "A 
PostScript Profiler (Sort of)."

The Journal is free for the downloading at

	www.http://acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html

Hope that helps.

- John

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How do you profile postscript code? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-08-29 23:37 -0700
  Re: How do you profile postscript code? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-08-31 17:55 -0700
  Re: How do you profile postscript code? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-12 09:40 -0700
  Re: How do you profile postscript code? John Deubert <john@acumentraining.com> - 2013-09-27 07:36 -0700

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