1 ;;; elp.el --- Emacs Lisp Profiler -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1994-1995, 1997-1998, 2001-2016 Free Software
6 ;; Author: Barry A. Warsaw
7 ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
8 ;; Created: 26-Feb-1994
9 ;; Keywords: debugging lisp tools
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28 ;; If you want to profile a bunch of functions, set elp-function-list
29 ;; to the list of symbols, then do a M-x elp-instrument-list. This
30 ;; hacks those functions so that profiling information is recorded
31 ;; whenever they are called. To print out the current results, use
32 ;; M-x elp-results. If you want output to go to standard-output
33 ;; instead of a separate buffer, setq elp-use-standard-output to
34 ;; non-nil. With elp-reset-after-results set to non-nil, profiling
35 ;; information will be reset whenever the results are displayed. You
36 ;; can also reset all profiling info at any time with M-x
39 ;; You can also instrument all functions in a package, provided that
40 ;; the package follows the GNU coding standard of a common textual
41 ;; prefix. Use M-x elp-instrument-package for this.
43 ;; If you want to sort the results, set elp-sort-by-function to some
44 ;; predicate function. The three most obvious choices are predefined:
45 ;; elp-sort-by-call-count, elp-sort-by-average-time, and
46 ;; elp-sort-by-total-time. Also, you can prune from the output, all
47 ;; functions that have been called fewer than a given number of times
48 ;; by setting elp-report-limit.
50 ;; Elp can instrument byte-compiled functions just as easily as
51 ;; interpreted functions, but it cannot instrument macros. However,
52 ;; when you redefine a function (e.g. with eval-defun), you'll need to
53 ;; re-instrument it with M-x elp-instrument-function. This will also
54 ;; reset profiling information for that function. Elp can handle
55 ;; interactive functions (i.e. commands), but of course any time spent
56 ;; idling for user prompts will show up in the timing results.
58 ;; You can also designate a `master' function. Profiling times will
59 ;; be gathered for instrumented functions only during execution of
60 ;; this master function. Thus, if you have some defuns like:
62 ;; (defun foo () (do-something-time-intensive))
63 ;; (defun bar () (foo))
64 ;; (defun baz () (bar) (foo))
66 ;; and you want to find out the amount of time spent in bar and foo,
67 ;; but only during execution of bar, make bar the master. The call of
68 ;; foo from baz will not add to foo's total timing sums. Use M-x
69 ;; elp-set-master and M-x elp-unset-master to utilize this feature.
70 ;; Only one master function can be set at a time.
72 ;; You can restore any function's original function definition with
73 ;; elp-restore-function. The other instrument, restore, and reset
74 ;; functions are provided for symmetry.
76 ;; Here is a list of variable you can use to customize elp:
78 ;; elp-reset-after-results
79 ;; elp-sort-by-function
82 ;; Here is a list of the interactive commands you can use:
83 ;; elp-instrument-function
84 ;; elp-restore-function
85 ;; elp-instrument-list
87 ;; elp-instrument-package
96 ;; Note that there are plenty of factors that could make the times
97 ;; reported unreliable, including the accuracy and granularity of your
98 ;; system clock, and the overhead spent in lisp calculating and
99 ;; recording the intervals. I figure the latter is pretty constant,
100 ;; so while the times may not be entirely accurate, I think they'll
101 ;; give you a good feel for the relative amount of work spent in the
102 ;; various lisp routines you are profiling. Note further that times
103 ;; are calculated using wall-clock time, so other system load will
104 ;; affect accuracy too.
108 ;; This program was inspired by the only two existing Emacs Lisp
109 ;; profilers that I'm aware of, Boaz Ben-Zvi's profile.el, and Root
110 ;; Boy Jim's profiler.el. Both were written for Emacs 18 and both were
111 ;; pretty good first shots at profiling, but I found that they didn't
112 ;; provide the functionality or interface that I wanted, so I wrote
113 ;; this. I've tested elp in XEmacs 19 and Emacs 19. There's no point
114 ;; in even trying to make this work with Emacs 18.
116 ;; Unlike previous profilers, elp uses Emacs 19's built-in function
117 ;; current-time to return interval times. This obviates the need for
118 ;; both an external C program and Emacs processes to communicate with
119 ;; such a program, and thus simplifies the package as a whole.
122 ;; Make this act like a real profiler, so that it records time spent
123 ;; in all branches of execution.
127 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl-lib
))
129 ;; start of user configuration variables
130 ;; vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
133 "Emacs Lisp Profiler."
136 (defcustom elp-function-list nil
137 "List of functions to profile.
138 Used by the command `elp-instrument-list'."
139 :type
'(repeat function
)
142 (defcustom elp-reset-after-results t
143 "Non-nil means reset all profiling info after results are displayed.
144 Results are displayed with the `elp-results' command."
148 (defcustom elp-sort-by-function
'elp-sort-by-total-time
149 "Non-nil specifies ELP results sorting function.
150 These functions are currently available:
152 `elp-sort-by-call-count' -- sort by the highest call count
153 `elp-sort-by-total-time' -- sort by the highest total time
154 `elp-sort-by-average-time' -- sort by the highest average times
156 You can write your own sort function. It should adhere to the
157 interface specified by the PREDICATE argument for `sort'.
158 Each \"element of LIST\" is really a 4 element vector where element 0 is
159 the call count, element 1 is the total time spent in the function,
160 element 2 is the average time spent in the function, and element 3 is
161 the symbol's name string."
165 (defcustom elp-report-limit
1
166 "Prevent some functions from being displayed in the results buffer.
167 If a number, no function that has been called fewer than that number
168 of times will be displayed in the output buffer. If nil, all
169 functions will be displayed."
170 :type
'(choice integer
171 (const :tag
"Show All" nil
))
174 (defcustom elp-use-standard-output nil
175 "If non-nil, output to `standard-output' instead of a buffer."
179 (defcustom elp-recycle-buffers-p t
180 "If nil, don't recycle the `elp-results-buffer'.
181 In other words, a new unique buffer is create every time you run
187 ;; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
188 ;; end of user configuration variables
191 (defvar elp-results-buffer
"*ELP Profiling Results*"
192 "Buffer name for outputting profiling results.")
194 (defconst elp-timer-info-property
'elp-info
195 "ELP information property name.")
197 (defvar elp-record-p t
198 "Controls whether functions should record times or not.
199 This variable is set by the master function.")
201 (defvar elp-master nil
202 "Master function symbol.")
204 (defvar elp-not-profilable
205 ;; First, the functions used inside each instrumented function:
206 '(called-interactively-p
207 ;; Then the functions used by the above functions. I used
208 ;; (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (x) (and (symbolp x) (fboundp x) x))
209 ;; (aref (symbol-function 'elp-wrapper) 2)))
210 ;; to help me find this list.
211 error call-interactively apply current-time
212 ;; Andreas Politz reports problems profiling these (Bug#4233):
213 + byte-code-function-p functionp byte-code subrp
214 indirect-function fboundp
)
215 "List of functions that cannot be profiled.
216 Those functions are used internally by the profiling code and profiling
217 them would thus lead to infinite recursion.")
219 (defun elp-profilable-p (fun)
222 (not (or (memq fun elp-not-profilable
)
224 (autoloadp (symbol-function fun
)) ;FIXME: Why not just load it?
225 (special-form-p fun
)))))
227 (defconst elp--advice-name
'ELP-instrumentation\
)
230 (defun elp-instrument-function (funsym)
231 "Instrument FUNSYM for profiling.
232 FUNSYM must be a symbol of a defined function."
233 (interactive "aFunction to instrument: ")
234 (let* ((infovec (vector 0 0)))
235 ;; We cannot profile functions used internally during profiling.
236 (unless (elp-profilable-p funsym
)
237 (error "ELP cannot profile the function: %s" funsym
))
238 ;; The info vector data structure is a 2 element vector. The 0th
239 ;; element is the call-count, i.e. the total number of times this
240 ;; function has been entered. This value is bumped up on entry to
241 ;; the function so that non-local exists are still recorded. TBD:
242 ;; I haven't tested non-local exits at all, so no guarantees.
244 ;; The 1st element is the total amount of time in seconds that has
245 ;; been spent inside this function. This number is added to on
248 ;; Put the info vector on the property list.
249 (put funsym elp-timer-info-property infovec
)
251 ;; Set the symbol's new profiling function definition to run
253 (advice-add funsym
:around
(elp--make-wrapper funsym
)
254 `((name .
,elp--advice-name
) (depth . -
99)))))
256 (defun elp--instrumented-p (sym)
257 (advice-member-p elp--advice-name sym
))
259 (defun elp-restore-function (funsym)
260 "Restore an instrumented function to its original definition.
261 Argument FUNSYM is the symbol of a defined function."
265 (completing-read "Function to restore: " obarray
266 #'elp--instrumented-p t
))))
267 ;; If the function was the master, reset the master.
268 (if (eq funsym elp-master
)
272 ;; Zap the properties.
273 (put funsym elp-timer-info-property nil
)
275 (advice-remove funsym elp--advice-name
))
278 (defun elp-instrument-list (&optional list
)
279 "Instrument, for profiling, all functions in `elp-function-list'.
280 Use optional LIST if provided instead.
281 If called interactively, read LIST using the minibuffer."
282 (interactive "PList of functions to instrument: ") ;FIXME: Doesn't work?!
284 (signal 'wrong-type-argument
(list 'listp list
)))
285 (mapcar #'elp-instrument-function
(or list elp-function-list
)))
288 (defun elp-instrument-package (prefix)
289 "Instrument for profiling, all functions which start with PREFIX.
290 For example, to instrument all ELP functions, do the following:
292 \\[elp-instrument-package] RET elp- RET"
294 (list (completing-read "Prefix of package to instrument: "
295 obarray
'elp-profilable-p
)))
296 (if (zerop (length prefix
))
297 (error "Instrumenting all Emacs functions would render Emacs unusable"))
301 (all-completions prefix obarray
'elp-profilable-p
))))
303 (defun elp-restore-list (&optional list
)
304 "Restore the original definitions for all functions in `elp-function-list'.
305 Use optional LIST if provided instead."
306 (interactive "PList of functions to restore: ") ;FIXME: Doesn't work!?
307 (mapcar #'elp-restore-function
(or list elp-function-list
)))
309 (defun elp-restore-all ()
310 "Restore the original definitions of all functions being profiled."
312 (mapatoms #'elp-restore-function
))
314 (defun elp-reset-function (funsym)
315 "Reset the profiling information for FUNSYM."
316 (interactive "aFunction to reset: ")
317 (let ((info (get funsym elp-timer-info-property
)))
319 (error "%s is not instrumented for profiling" funsym
))
320 (aset info
0 0) ;reset call counter
321 (aset info
1 0.0) ;reset total time
322 ;; don't muck with aref 2 as that is the old symbol definition
325 (defun elp-reset-list (&optional list
)
326 "Reset the profiling information for all functions in `elp-function-list'.
327 Use optional LIST if provided instead."
328 (interactive "PList of functions to reset: ") ;FIXME: Doesn't work!?
329 (let ((list (or list elp-function-list
)))
330 (mapcar 'elp-reset-function list
)))
332 (defun elp-reset-all ()
333 "Reset the profiling information for all functions being profiled."
335 (mapatoms (lambda (sym)
336 (if (get sym elp-timer-info-property
)
337 (elp-reset-function sym
)))))
339 (defun elp-set-master (funsym)
340 "Set the master function for profiling."
344 (completing-read "Master function: " obarray
345 #'elp--instrumented-p
346 t nil nil
(if elp-master
(symbol-name elp-master
))))))
347 ;; When there's a master function, recording is turned off by default.
348 (setq elp-master funsym
350 ;; Make sure master function is instrumented.
351 (or (elp--instrumented-p funsym
)
352 (elp-instrument-function funsym
)))
354 (defun elp-unset-master ()
355 "Unset the master function."
357 ;; When there's no master function, recording is turned on by default.
362 (defsubst elp-elapsed-time
(start end
)
363 (float-time (time-subtract end start
)))
365 (defun elp--make-wrapper (funsym)
366 "Make the piece of advice that instruments FUNSYM."
367 (lambda (func &rest args
)
368 "This function has been instrumented for profiling by the ELP.
369 ELP is the Emacs Lisp Profiler. To restore the function to its
370 original definition, use \\[elp-restore-function] or \\[elp-restore-all]."
371 ;; turn on recording if this is the master function
373 (eq funsym elp-master
))
374 (setq elp-record-p t
))
375 ;; get info vector and original function symbol
376 (let* ((info (get funsym elp-timer-info-property
))
379 (error "%s is not instrumented for profiling" funsym
))
380 (if (not elp-record-p
)
381 ;; when not recording, just call the original function symbol
382 ;; and return the results.
383 (setq result
(apply func args
))
384 ;; we are recording times
385 (let (enter-time exit-time
)
386 ;; increment the call-counter
387 (cl-incf (aref info
0))
388 (setq enter-time
(current-time)
389 result
(apply func args
)
390 exit-time
(current-time))
391 ;; calculate total time in function
392 (cl-incf (aref info
1) (elp-elapsed-time enter-time exit-time
))
394 ;; turn off recording if this is the master function
396 (eq funsym elp-master
))
397 (setq elp-record-p nil
))
401 ;; shut the byte-compiler up
402 (defvar elp-field-len nil
)
403 (defvar elp-cc-len nil
)
404 (defvar elp-at-len nil
)
405 (defvar elp-et-len nil
)
407 (defun elp-sort-by-call-count (vec1 vec2
)
408 ;; sort by highest call count. See `sort'.
409 (>= (aref vec1
0) (aref vec2
0)))
411 (defun elp-sort-by-total-time (vec1 vec2
)
412 ;; sort by highest total time spent in function. See `sort'.
413 (>= (aref vec1
1) (aref vec2
1)))
415 (defun elp-sort-by-average-time (vec1 vec2
)
416 ;; sort by highest average time spent in function. See `sort'.
417 (>= (aref vec1
2) (aref vec2
2)))
419 (defsubst elp-pack-number
(number width
)
420 ;; pack the NUMBER string into WIDTH characters, watching out for
421 ;; very small or large numbers
422 (if (<= (length number
) width
)
424 ;; check for very large or small numbers
425 (if (string-match "^\\(.*\\)\\(e[+-].*\\)$" number
)
427 (match-string 1 number
)
429 (- width
(match-end 2) (- (match-beginning 2)) 3))
431 (match-string 2 number
))
432 (substring number
0 width
))))
434 (defun elp-output-result (resultvec)
435 ;; output the RESULTVEC into the results buffer. RESULTVEC is a 4 or
436 ;; more element vector where aref 0 is the call count, aref 1 is the
437 ;; total time spent in the function, aref 2 is the average time
438 ;; spent in the function, and aref 3 is the symbol's string
439 ;; name. All other elements in the vector are ignored.
440 (let* ((cc (aref resultvec
0))
441 (tt (aref resultvec
1))
442 (at (aref resultvec
2))
443 (symname (aref resultvec
3))
444 callcnt totaltime avetime
)
445 (setq callcnt
(number-to-string cc
)
446 totaltime
(number-to-string tt
)
447 avetime
(number-to-string at
))
448 ;; possibly prune the results
449 (if (and elp-report-limit
450 (numberp elp-report-limit
)
451 (< cc elp-report-limit
))
453 (elp-output-insert-symname symname
)
454 (insert-char 32 (+ elp-field-len
(- (length symname
)) 2))
455 ;; print stuff out, formatting it nicely
457 (insert-char 32 (+ elp-cc-len
(- (length callcnt
)) 2))
458 (let ((ttstr (elp-pack-number totaltime elp-et-len
))
459 (atstr (elp-pack-number avetime elp-at-len
)))
461 (insert-char 32 (+ elp-et-len
(- (length ttstr
)) 2))
465 (defvar elp-results-symname-map
466 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
467 (define-key map
[mouse-2
] 'elp-results-jump-to-definition
)
468 (define-key map
[follow-link
] 'mouse-face
)
469 (define-key map
"\C-m" 'elp-results-jump-to-definition
)
471 "Keymap used on the function name column." )
473 (defun elp-results-jump-to-definition (&optional event
)
474 "Jump to the definition of the function under the point."
475 (interactive (list last-nonmenu-event
))
476 (if event
(posn-set-point (event-end event
)))
477 (find-function (get-text-property (point) 'elp-symname
)))
479 (defun elp-output-insert-symname (symname)
480 ;; Insert SYMNAME with text properties.
481 (insert (propertize symname
482 'elp-symname
(intern symname
)
483 'keymap elp-results-symname-map
484 'mouse-face
'highlight
486 'help-echo
"mouse-2 or RET jumps to definition")))
489 (defun elp-results ()
490 "Display current profiling results.
491 If `elp-reset-after-results' is non-nil, then current profiling
492 information for all instrumented functions is reset after results are
495 (let ((curbuf (current-buffer))
496 (resultsbuf (if elp-recycle-buffers-p
497 (get-buffer-create elp-results-buffer
)
498 (generate-new-buffer elp-results-buffer
))))
499 (set-buffer resultsbuf
)
501 ;; get the length of the longest function name being profiled
503 (title "Function Name")
504 (titlelen (length title
))
505 (elp-field-len titlelen
)
506 (cc-header "Call Count")
507 (elp-cc-len (length cc-header
))
508 (et-header "Elapsed Time")
509 (elp-et-len (length et-header
))
510 (at-header "Average Time")
511 (elp-at-len (length at-header
))
516 (when (elp--instrumented-p funsym
)
517 (let* ((info (get funsym elp-timer-info-property
))
518 (symname (format "%s" funsym
))
522 (insert "No profiling information found for: "
524 (setq longest
(max longest
(length symname
)))
526 (vector cc tt
(if (zerop cc
)
527 0.0 ;avoid arithmetic div-by-zero errors
528 (/ (float tt
) (float cc
)))
531 ;; If printing to stdout, insert the header so it will print.
532 ;; Otherwise use header-line-format.
533 (setq elp-field-len
(max titlelen longest
))
534 (if (or elp-use-standard-output noninteractive
)
537 (if (> longest titlelen
)
539 (insert-char 32 (- longest titlelen
))))
540 (insert " " cc-header
" " et-header
" " at-header
"\n")
541 (insert-char ?
= elp-field-len
)
543 (insert-char ?
= elp-cc-len
)
545 (insert-char ?
= elp-et-len
)
547 (insert-char ?
= elp-at-len
)
550 (setq header-line-format
556 'display
(list 'space
:align-to column
)
559 (setq column
(+ column
2
563 (list title cc-header et-header at-header
) ""))))
564 ;; if sorting is enabled, then sort the results list. in either
565 ;; case, call elp-output-result to output the result in the
567 (if elp-sort-by-function
568 (setq resvec
(sort resvec elp-sort-by-function
)))
569 (mapc 'elp-output-result resvec
))
570 ;; now pop up results buffer
572 (pop-to-buffer resultsbuf
)
573 ;; copy results to standard-output?
574 (if (or elp-use-standard-output noninteractive
)
575 (princ (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))
576 (goto-char (point-min)))
577 ;; reset profiling info if desired
578 (and elp-reset-after-results
581 (defun elp-unload-function ()
582 "Unload the Emacs Lisp Profiler."
584 ;; continue standard unloading