January 2010
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Profiling Garbage Collection in Haskell with...
I recently added DTrace probes to the GHC runtime system. In the following, I will explore the use of these probes for profiling the garbage collection behaviour of Haskell programs. Mac OS X comes with a graphical tool, called Instruments, that supports visualising data gathered with DTrace. Let’s start by having a look at visualising the DTrace events gc-start and gc-end for the...