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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/profiling.rst b/docs/users_guide/profiling.rst index b9b5d371f9..94dce0b7f4 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/profiling.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/profiling.rst @@ -1752,7 +1752,7 @@ Getting started with ticky profiling consists of three steps. ticked throughout the duration of the program. Additional Ticky Flags ----------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are some additional flags which can be used to increase the number of ticky counters and the quality of the profile. @@ -1820,7 +1820,7 @@ lifetime. See :ref:`ticky-event-format` for details on the event types reported. Understanding the Output of Ticky-Ticky profiles ------------------------------------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once you have your rendered profile then you can begin to understand the allocation behaviour of your program. There are two classes of ticky-ticky counters. @@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ In general you are probably interested mostly in the name-specific counters as t can provided detailed information about where allocates how much in your program. Information about name-specific counters ----------------------------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Name-specific counters provide the following information about a closure. @@ -1888,7 +1888,7 @@ calls to dictionary arguments by searching the profile for the ``+`` classifier. This indicates that the function has failed to specialise for one reason or another. Examples --------- +~~~~~~~~ A typical use of ticky-ticky would be to generate a ticky report using the eventlog by evoking an application with RTS arguments like this: @@ -1904,7 +1904,7 @@ on the produced eventlog. In the example above the invocation would then be ``ev Which will produce a searchable and sortable table containing all the ticky counters in the log. Notes about ticky profiling ---------------------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * You can mix together modules compiled with and without ``-ticky`` but you will miss out on allocations and counts from uninstrumented modules in the profile. |