Re: Memory profiling

Robert A Duff wrote: 
"Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


I suppose something similar can be achieved using distinct storage pools
for each access type being tracked, but I find this more
inconvenient. Ummm, maybe a type holding a list of storage pools created
on demand...



All those storage pools can share the same underlying memory pool.  That
is, each pool just keeps track of whatever debugging/statistics info you
want, and then calls some underlying pool, or just does a "new", or
calls malloc, or whatever.  So gathering fine-grained (per type)
information does not need to imply that you have to actually allocate
type-segregated data.

That's the idea I had in mind, but you still have to provide a new storage pool for each tracked access type. Nonetheless, I see interesting potential in this idea.

In other news, I've just tested the Massif module of Valgrind and while it doesn't do exactly what I wanted, it is a very valuable tool. What it does is to keep track of all allocations, so it gives and idea of the overall story instead of a particular moment in time. It works out-of-the-box with gnat executables compiled with debug info.

And I just have recalled about gnatmem, silly me.
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