The GAP 4 package `profiling'

This package provides line-by-line profiling of GAP, allowing both discovering which lines of code take the most time, and which lines of code are even executed.

The main function provided by this package is OutputAnnotatedCodeCoverageFiles, which takes a previously generated profile (using ProfileLineByLine or CoverageLineByLine, both provided by the GAP library), and outputs human-readable` HTML files.

There is also OutputFlameGraph, which outputs a graphical diagram showing which functions took the most time during exection.

Building

Requirements

This package requires the 'IO' package is installed and compiled. Check it can be loaded by running LoadPackage("io"); before trying to compile and run 'profiling'.

This package also requires a C++ compiler (typically clang++ or g++)

Build Instructions For Release

The package should be built using the commands:

./configure
make

Optionally, if this package is not within GAP's pkg directory, you can use the following notation to tell configure where GAP is located.

./configure <location of GAP root>
make