GCC -ftime-trace

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

Hello all,

Shivansh Khare wrote:


> I have looked into the different starter projects that are offered in the
> [Wiki GSoC page](https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode) and I was
> particularly interested in the `-ftime-trace` project. The following is
> what is given as a short description about the problematic:
> "Implement something similar to Clang's -ftime-trace feature which
> generates performance reports that show where the compiler spends compile
> time. For more information, please check the following blog post.

Are you aware of the existing -ftime-report option to GCC 12 or later?

On Linux (and probably many other POSIX) systems, at least in straight 
(non-cross) x86-64 GCC compilers, implementing that should be not very 
difficult. Here are some insights.

Read carefully https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/time.7.html

First, you could experiment by writing a GCC plugin doing that timing 
(in some experimental way). 
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Plugins.html

Maybe consider later providing such a "standard" GCC plugin to do the 
timing.

Modifying the pass manager 
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Pass-manager.html#Pass-manager to 
use clock_gettime system call. See 
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/clock_gettime.2.html

It is related to plugin gate functions...


Regards.


BTW, my pet open source project is http://refpersys.org/ (symbolic 
inference engine, work in progress).


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