Questions tagged [profiler]
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Profile a command by wall time
The profiler-start command has options for cpu, mem, and cpu+mem. Is there a way to profile a command by elapsed time?

Matthew Piziak
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Make profiler report columns wider
I am debugging a very deep call stack. Unfortunately profiler reports (produced with M-x profiler-report) have a fixed width that obscures critical information when the stack gets deep.
Is there any way I can give myself some extra room?

PythonNut
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profile-report doesn't show any report data
I used M-x profiler-start RET RET then after a few other operations I did M-x profiler-stop.
Then M-x profiler-report. It doesn't show any profile data.
I am using OSX. Where is profile data supposed to be saved? and what is the file name supposed…

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`profiler-report` output is truncated horizontally?
I'm having some performance problems with the latest version of magit, which I'm trying to profile to find the reason. I'm doing the following:
M-x profiler-start
M-x magit-status
M-x profiler-report
Unfortunately the report is truncated…

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profiler-report seems to be missing data
I'm trying to profile the usually excellent find-things-fast package to figure out why it's slow in my project.
I started profiling with profiler-start, executed the command that's slow (ftf-find-file), then immediately ran profiler-report.
This…

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