;;; elp.el --- Emacs Lisp Profiler ;; Copyright (C) 1994,1995,1997,1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: 1994-1998 Barry A. Warsaw ;; Maintainer: tools-help@python.org ;; Created: 26-Feb-1994 ;; Version: 3.2 ;; Keywords: debugging lisp tools ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;; ;; If you want to profile a bunch of functions, set elp-function-list ;; to the list of symbols, then do a M-x elp-instrument-list. This ;; hacks those functions so that profiling information is recorded ;; whenever they are called. To print out the current results, use ;; M-x elp-results. If you want output to go to standard-output ;; instead of a separate buffer, setq elp-use-standard-output to ;; non-nil. With elp-reset-after-results set to non-nil, profiling ;; information will be reset whenever the results are displayed. You ;; can also reset all profiling info at any time with M-x ;; elp-reset-all. ;; ;; You can also instrument all functions in a package, provided that ;; the package follows the GNU coding standard of a common textural ;; prefix. Use M-x elp-instrument-package for this. ;; ;; If you want to sort the results, set elp-sort-by-function to some ;; predicate function. The three most obvious choices are predefined: ;; elp-sort-by-call-count, elp-sort-by-average-time, and ;; elp-sort-by-total-time. Also, you can prune from the output, all ;; functions that have been called fewer than a given number of times ;; by setting elp-report-limit. ;; ;; Elp can instrument byte-compiled functions just as easily as ;; interpreted functions, but it cannot instrument macros. However, ;; when you redefine a function (e.g. with eval-defun), you'll need to ;; re-instrument it with M-x elp-instrument-function. This will also ;; reset profiling information for that function. Elp can handle ;; interactive functions (i.e. commands), but of course any time spent ;; idling for user prompts will show up in the timing results. ;; ;; You can also designate a `master' function. Profiling times will ;; be gathered for instrumented functions only during execution of ;; this master function. Thus, if you have some defuns like: ;; ;; (defun foo () (do-something-time-intensive)) ;; (defun bar () (foo)) ;; (defun baz () (bar) (foo)) ;; ;; and you want to find out the amount of time spent in bar and foo, ;; but only during execution of bar, make bar the master. The call of ;; foo from baz will not add to foo's total timing sums. Use M-x ;; elp-set-master and M-x elp-unset-master to utilize this feature. ;; Only one master function can be set at a time. ;; You can restore any function's original function definition with ;; elp-restore-function. The other instrument, restore, and reset ;; functions are provided for symmetry. ;; Here is a list of variable you can use to customize elp: ;; elp-function-list ;; elp-reset-after-results ;; elp-sort-by-function ;; elp-report-limit ;; ;; Here is a list of the interactive commands you can use: ;; elp-instrument-function ;; elp-restore-function ;; elp-instrument-list ;; elp-restore-list ;; elp-instrument-package ;; elp-restore-all ;; elp-reset-function ;; elp-reset-list ;; elp-reset-all ;; elp-set-master ;; elp-unset-master ;; elp-results ;; elp-submit-bug-report ;; Note that there are plenty of factors that could make the times ;; reported unreliable, including the accuracy and granularity of your ;; system clock, and the overhead spent in lisp calculating and ;; recording the intervals. I figure the latter is pretty constant, ;; so while the times may not be entirely accurate, I think they'll ;; give you a good feel for the relative amount of work spent in the ;; various lisp routines you are profiling. Note further that times ;; are calculated using wall-clock time, so other system load will ;; affect accuracy too. ;;; Background: ;; This program was inspired by the only two existing Emacs Lisp ;; profilers that I'm aware of, Boaz Ben-Zvi's profile.el, and Root ;; Boy Jim's profiler.el. Both were written for Emacs 18 and both were ;; pretty good first shots at profiling, but I found that they didn't ;; provide the functionality or interface that I wanted, so I wrote ;; this. I've tested elp in XEmacs 19 and Emacs 19. There's no point ;; in even trying to make this work with Emacs 18. ;; Unlike previous profilers, elp uses Emacs 19's built-in function ;; current-time to return interval times. This obviates the need for ;; both an external C program and Emacs processes to communicate with ;; such a program, and thus simplifies the package as a whole. ;; TBD: ;; Make this act like a real profiler, so that it records time spent ;; in all branches of execution. ;;; Code: ;; start of user configuration variables ;; vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv (defgroup elp nil "Emacs Lisp Profiler" :group 'lisp) (defcustom elp-function-list nil "*List of functions to profile. Used by the command `elp-instrument-list'." :type '(repeat function) :group 'elp) (defcustom elp-reset-after-results t "*Non-nil means reset all profiling info after results are displayed. Results are displayed with the `elp-results' command." :type 'boolean :group 'elp) (defcustom elp-sort-by-function 'elp-sort-by-total-time "*Non-nil specifies elp results sorting function. These functions are currently available: elp-sort-by-call-count -- sort by the highest call count elp-sort-by-total-time -- sort by the highest total time elp-sort-by-average-time -- sort by the highest average times You can write you're own sort function. It should adhere to the interface specified by the PRED argument for the `sort' defun. Each \"element of LIST\" is really a 4 element vector where element 0 is the call count, element 1 is the total time spent in the function, element 2 is the average time spent in the function, and element 3 is the symbol's name string." :type 'function :group 'elp) (defcustom elp-report-limit 1 "*Prevents some functions from being displayed in the results buffer. If a number, no function that has been called fewer than that number of times will be displayed in the output buffer. If nil, all functions will be displayed." :type '(choice integer (const :tag "Show All" nil)) :group 'elp) (defcustom elp-use-standard-output nil "*Non-nil says to output to `standard-output' instead of a buffer." :type 'boolean :group 'elp) (defcustom elp-recycle-buffers-p t "*Nil says to not recycle the `elp-results-buffer'. In other words, a new unique buffer is create every time you run \\[elp-results]." :type 'boolean :group 'elp) ;; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ;; end of user configuration variables (defconst elp-version "3.2" "ELP version number.") (defconst elp-help-address "tools-help@python.org" "Address accepting submissions of bug reports and questions.") (defvar elp-results-buffer "*ELP Profiling Results*" "Buffer name for outputting profiling results.") (defconst elp-timer-info-property 'elp-info "ELP information property name.") (defvar elp-all-instrumented-list nil "List of all functions currently being instrumented.") (defvar elp-record-p t "Controls whether functions should record times or not. This variable is set by the master function.") (defvar elp-master nil "Master function symbol.") ;;;###autoload (defun elp-instrument-function (funsym) "Instrument FUNSYM for profiling. FUNSYM must be a symbol of a defined function." (interactive "aFunction to instrument: ") ;; restore the function. this is necessary to avoid infinite ;; recursion of already instrumented functions (i.e. elp-wrapper ;; calling elp-wrapper ad infinitum). it is better to simply ;; restore the function than to throw an error. this will work ;; properly in the face of eval-defun because if the function was ;; redefined, only the timer info will be nil'd out since ;; elp-restore-function is smart enough not to trash the new ;; definition. (elp-restore-function funsym) (let* ((funguts (symbol-function funsym)) (infovec (vector 0 0 funguts)) (newguts '(lambda (&rest args)))) ;; we cannot profile macros (and (eq (car-safe funguts) 'macro) (error "ELP cannot profile macro: %s" funsym)) ;; TBD: at some point it might be better to load the autoloaded ;; function instead of throwing an error. if we do this, then we ;; probably want elp-instrument-package to be updated with the ;; newly loaded list of functions. i'm not sure it's smart to do ;; the autoload here, since that could have side effects, and ;; elp-instrument-function is similar (in my mind) to defun-ish ;; type functionality (i.e. it shouldn't execute the function). (and (eq (car-safe funguts) 'autoload) (error "ELP cannot profile autoloaded function: %s" funsym)) ;; put rest of newguts together (if (commandp funsym) (setq newguts (append newguts '((interactive))))) (setq newguts (append newguts (list (list 'elp-wrapper (list 'quote funsym) (list 'and '(interactive-p) (not (not (commandp funsym)))) 'args)))) ;; to record profiling times, we set the symbol's function ;; definition so that it runs the elp-wrapper function with the ;; function symbol as an argument. We place the old function ;; definition on the info vector. ;; ;; The info vector data structure is a 3 element vector. The 0th ;; element is the call-count, i.e. the total number of times this ;; function has been entered. This value is bumped up on entry to ;; the function so that non-local exists are still recorded. TBD: ;; I haven't tested non-local exits at all, so no guarantees. ;; ;; The 1st element is the total amount of time in usecs that have ;; been spent inside this function. This number is added to on ;; function exit. ;; ;; The 2nd element is the old function definition list. This gets ;; funcall'd in between start/end time retrievals. I believe that ;; this lets us profile even byte-compiled functions. ;; put the info vector on the property list (put funsym elp-timer-info-property infovec) ;; set the symbol's new profiling function definition to run ;; elp-wrapper (fset funsym newguts) ;; add this function to the instrumentation list (or (memq funsym elp-all-instrumented-list) (setq elp-all-instrumented-list (cons funsym elp-all-instrumented-list))) )) ;;;###autoload (defun elp-restore-function (funsym) "Restore an instrumented function to its original definition. Argument FUNSYM is the symbol of a defined function." (interactive "aFunction to restore: ") (let ((info (get funsym elp-timer-info-property))) ;; delete the function from the all instrumented list (setq elp-all-instrumented-list (delq funsym elp-all-instrumented-list)) ;; if the function was the master, reset the master (if (eq funsym elp-master) (setq elp-master nil elp-record-p t)) ;; zap the properties (put funsym elp-timer-info-property nil) ;; restore the original function definition, but if the function ;; wasn't instrumented do nothing. we do this after the above ;; because its possible the function got un-instrumented due to ;; circumstances beyond our control. Also, check to make sure ;; that the current function symbol points to elp-wrapper. If ;; not, then the user probably did an eval-defun, or loaded a ;; byte-compiled version, while the function was instrumented and ;; we don't want to destroy the new definition. can it ever be ;; the case that a lisp function can be compiled instrumented? (and info (functionp funsym) (not (compiled-function-p (symbol-function funsym))) (assq 'elp-wrapper (symbol-function funsym)) (fset funsym (aref info 2))))) ;;;###autoload (defun elp-instrument-list (&optional list) "Instrument for profiling, all functions in `elp-function-list'. Use optional LIST if provided instead." (interactive "PList of functions to instrument: ") (let ((list (or list elp-function-list))) (mapcar 'elp-instrument-function list))) ;;;###autoload (defun elp-instrument-package (prefix) "Instrument for profiling, all functions which start with PREFIX. For example, to instrument all ELP functions, do the following: \\[elp-instrument-package] RET elp- RET" (interactive "sPrefix of package to instrument: ") (elp-instrument-list (mapcar 'intern (all-completions prefix obarray (function (lambda (sym) (and (fboundp sym) (not (memq (car-safe (symbol-function sym)) '(autoload macro)))) )) )))) (defun elp-restore-list (&optional list) "Restore the original definitions for all functions in `elp-function-list'. Use optional LIST if provided instead." (interactive "PList of functions to restore: ") (let ((list (or list elp-function-list))) (mapcar 'elp-restore-function list))) (defun elp-restore-all () "Restores the original definitions of all functions being profiled." (interactive) (elp-restore-list elp-all-instrumented-list)) (defun elp-reset-function (funsym) "Reset the profiling information for FUNSYM." (interactive "aFunction to reset: ") (let ((info (get funsym elp-timer-info-property))) (or info (error "%s is not instrumented for profiling." funsym)) (aset info 0 0) ;reset call counter (aset info 1 0.0) ;reset total time ;; don't muck with aref 2 as that is the old symbol definition )) (defun elp-reset-list (&optional list) "Reset the profiling information for all functions in `elp-function-list'. Use optional LIST if provided instead." (interactive "PList of functions to reset: ") (let ((list (or list elp-function-list))) (mapcar 'elp-reset-function list))) (defun elp-reset-all () "Reset the profiling information for all functions being profiled." (interactive) (elp-reset-list elp-all-instrumented-list)) (defun elp-set-master (funsym) "Set the master function for profiling." (interactive "aMaster function: ") ;; when there's a master function, recording is turned off by ;; default (setq elp-master funsym elp-record-p nil) ;; make sure master function is instrumented (or (memq funsym elp-all-instrumented-list) (elp-instrument-function funsym))) (defun elp-unset-master () "Unsets the master function." (interactive) ;; when there's no master function, recording is turned on by default. (setq elp-master nil elp-record-p t)) (defsubst elp-elapsed-time (start end) (+ (* (- (car end) (car start)) 65536.0) (- (car (cdr end)) (car (cdr start))) (/ (- (car (cdr (cdr end))) (car (cdr (cdr start)))) 1000000.0))) (defun elp-wrapper (funsym interactive-p args) "This function has been instrumented for profiling by the ELP. ELP is the Emacs Lisp Profiler. To restore the function to its original definition, use \\[elp-restore-function] or \\[elp-restore-all]." ;; turn on recording if this is the master function (if (and elp-master (eq funsym elp-master)) (setq elp-record-p t)) ;; get info vector and original function symbol (let* ((info (get funsym elp-timer-info-property)) (func (aref info 2)) result) (or func (error "%s is not instrumented for profiling." funsym)) (if (not elp-record-p) ;; when not recording, just call the original function symbol ;; and return the results. (setq result (if interactive-p (call-interactively func) (apply func args))) ;; we are recording times (let (enter-time exit-time) ;; increment the call-counter (aset info 0 (1+ (aref info 0))) ;; now call the old symbol function, checking to see if it ;; should be called interactively. make sure we return the ;; correct value (if interactive-p (setq enter-time (current-time) result (call-interactively func) exit-time (current-time)) (setq enter-time (current-time) result (apply func args) exit-time (current-time))) ;; calculate total time in function (aset info 1 (+ (aref info 1) (elp-elapsed-time enter-time exit-time))) )) ;; turn off recording if this is the master function (if (and elp-master (eq funsym elp-master)) (setq elp-record-p nil)) result)) ;; shut the byte-compiler up (defvar elp-field-len nil) (defvar elp-cc-len nil) (defvar elp-at-len nil) (defvar elp-et-len nil) (defun elp-sort-by-call-count (vec1 vec2) ;; sort by highest call count. See `sort'. (>= (aref vec1 0) (aref vec2 0))) (defun elp-sort-by-total-time (vec1 vec2) ;; sort by highest total time spent in function. See `sort'. (>= (aref vec1 1) (aref vec2 1))) (defun elp-sort-by-average-time (vec1 vec2) ;; sort by highest average time spent in function. See `sort'. (>= (aref vec1 2) (aref vec2 2))) (defsubst elp-pack-number (number width) ;; pack the NUMBER string into WIDTH characters, watching out for ;; very small or large numbers (if (<= (length number) width) number ;; check for very large or small numbers (if (string-match "^\\(.*\\)\\(e[+-].*\\)$" number) (concat (substring (substring number (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) 0 (- width (match-end 2) (- (match-beginning 2)) 3)) "..." (substring number (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2))) (concat (substring number 0 width))))) (defun elp-output-result (resultvec) ;; output the RESULTVEC into the results buffer. RESULTVEC is a 4 or ;; more element vector where aref 0 is the call count, aref 1 is the ;; total time spent in the function, aref 2 is the average time ;; spent in the function, and aref 3 is the symbol's string ;; name. All other elements in the vector are ignored. (let* ((cc (aref resultvec 0)) (tt (aref resultvec 1)) (at (aref resultvec 2)) (symname (aref resultvec 3)) callcnt totaltime avetime) (setq callcnt (number-to-string cc) totaltime (number-to-string tt) avetime (number-to-string at)) ;; possibly prune the results (if (and elp-report-limit (numberp elp-report-limit) (< cc elp-report-limit)) nil (insert symname) (insert-char 32 (+ elp-field-len (- (length symname)) 2)) ;; print stuff out, formatting it nicely (insert callcnt) (insert-char 32 (+ elp-cc-len (- (length callcnt)) 2)) (let ((ttstr (elp-pack-number totaltime elp-et-len)) (atstr (elp-pack-number avetime elp-at-len))) (insert ttstr) (insert-char 32 (+ elp-et-len (- (length ttstr)) 2)) (insert atstr)) (insert "\n")))) ;;;###autoload (defun elp-results () "Display current profiling results. If `elp-reset-after-results' is non-nil, then current profiling information for all instrumented functions are reset after results are displayed." (interactive) (let ((curbuf (current-buffer)) (resultsbuf (if elp-recycle-buffers-p (get-buffer-create elp-results-buffer) (generate-new-buffer elp-results-buffer)))) (set-buffer resultsbuf) (erase-buffer) (beginning-of-buffer) ;; get the length of the longest function name being profiled (let* ((longest 0) (title "Function Name") (titlelen (length title)) (elp-field-len titlelen) (cc-header "Call Count") (elp-cc-len (length cc-header)) (et-header "Elapsed Time") (elp-et-len (length et-header)) (at-header "Average Time") (elp-at-len (length at-header)) (resvec (mapcar (function (lambda (funsym) (let* ((info (get funsym elp-timer-info-property)) (symname (format "%s" funsym)) (cc (aref info 0)) (tt (aref info 1))) (if (not info) (insert "No profiling information found for: " symname) (setq longest (max longest (length symname))) (vector cc tt (if (zerop cc) 0.0 ;avoid arithmetic div-by-zero errors (/ (float tt) (float cc))) symname))))) elp-all-instrumented-list)) ) ; end let* (insert title) (if (> longest titlelen) (progn (insert-char 32 (- longest titlelen)) (setq elp-field-len longest))) (insert " " cc-header " " et-header " " at-header "\n") (insert-char ?= elp-field-len) (insert " ") (insert-char ?= elp-cc-len) (insert " ") (insert-char ?= elp-et-len) (insert " ") (insert-char ?= elp-at-len) (insert "\n") ;; if sorting is enabled, then sort the results list. in either ;; case, call elp-output-result to output the result in the ;; buffer (if elp-sort-by-function (setq resvec (sort resvec elp-sort-by-function))) (mapcar 'elp-output-result resvec)) ;; now pop up results buffer (set-buffer curbuf) (pop-to-buffer resultsbuf) ;; copy results to standard-output? (if (or elp-use-standard-output noninteractive) (princ (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))) ;; reset profiling info if desired (and elp-reset-after-results (elp-reset-all)))) (eval-when-compile (require 'reporter)) ;;;###autoload (defun elp-submit-bug-report () "Submit via mail, a bug report on elp." (interactive) (and (y-or-n-p "Do you want to submit a report on elp? ") (require 'reporter) (reporter-submit-bug-report elp-help-address (concat "elp " elp-version) '(elp-report-limit elp-reset-after-results elp-sort-by-function)))) (provide 'elp) ;; elp.el ends here