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@@ -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.
@@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@ 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.
@@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@ 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.
@@ -1889,7 +1889,7 @@ 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:
@@ -1905,7 +1905,7 @@ 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.