Simple Performance Analysis

[jkoepp]

The common tool for profiling / performance optimization / bottleneck detection is the Benchmark Workshop which can be loaded for instance by the ConfigMap "ENVY/Stats ES-ALL" or the EsbAnalysisTools Application. Then you have to write a kind of test-method which will be executed and gives measurements and a graphical comparison of the results.

TestCase>>#sampleAnalysisFor: of SUnitBrowser gave the idea to write the following small utility method for the Class Block:

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Block>>#benchmarkAndBrowse

benchmarkAndBrowse

   | sampler |

   sampler := EsbSampler spyOn: self.
   sampler browse

Now we can at every place in the code, in the debugger or after having started any kind of big application make a performance analysis of a piece of code by executing simply [...] benchmarkAndBrowse without the need to start Benchmark Workshop and to write a test. Only put your code in the block or put some brackets around your code and send benchmarkAndBrowse!

For small code pieces I use
EsbTimer microsecondsToRun: [...]

Juergen

[McAllister]

I try it and it's very nice!

Thank you very much!
McAllister

[wembley]

Juergen -

This looks like a useful little addition to ENVY/Stats. With your permission, I will include it in VA Smalltalk V8.

[wembley]

Case 38594 opened -- fixed in V8.0.0.

I will extend Juergen's idea a bit and add two methods to Block (instead of one) -- sampleAndBrowse and traceAndBrowse.