[news.eclipse.tptp] Re: Feedback on my TPTP profiling experiences

[Nicholas Sherlock <n.sherlock@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Bleazard wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I think I've had my fill of trying to profile using TPTP. I've found it 
> a very frustrating experience. It was taken me just shy of 3 full days 
> to get a small amount of useful information out of it. The effort 
> involved was just not worth the return.

I had a similar experience. The version that I was using was nearly 
impossible to get working, and I fought with it for weeks. A bug fix in 
the latest release solved the problem, however, and now it installs 
smoothly.

It seems like the system is just not capable of logging much data. Toy 
test programs profile fine, but as soon as I try to profile anything CPU 
intensive (A ray tracer, for instance), it runs incredibly slow and then 
falls over.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock