Profiling Lua scripts

[Rob H]

Is G4 going to offer any way of profiling Lua scripts? (Or is it there already and I've missed it?)

[Promixis]

have you looked at http://lua-users.org/wiki/PepperfishProfiler

[Rob H]

Brilliant! Thanks Mike

[danward79]

What is a profiler?

[Mark F]

It is a tool used to help find out where time is spent in a program. The idea is if you can determine where the software spends all of it's time, you can optimize or re-write that section of code.

One problem that is hard to overcome is when you build profiling into software, the profiling code may change the behavior so much that the answers you come up with are invalid.

[Promixis]

Mark, always the optimist :D

[Mark F]

I prefer "realist". ;)

And by the way, the glass is neither half full nor half empty. It is twice the size it needs to be. :D

[danward79]

Thanks Mark!