tharsis-prof 0.4.2

Frame profiler library for games


To use this package, run the following command in your project's root directory:

Manual usage
Put the following dependency into your project's dependences section:

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</style> </head> <body> <div class="document" id="tharsis-prof"> <h1 class="title">Tharsis.prof</h1>

<div class="section" id="introduction"> <h1>Introduction</h1> <p>Tharsis.prof is an open source <a class="reference external" href="http://defenestrate.eu/2014/09/05/framebasedgame_profiling.html">frame-based profiler</a> library for the D programming language. A frame-based profiler keeps track of overhead separately for individual frames in a game. This is useful to track down issues with inconsistent overhead (such as lag that appears only once in a few seconds) that are hard to detect with conventional profilers.</p> <p>Tharsis.prof is designed to be easy to use and lightweight. See the example below to get started.</p> <p>Note that this is still a <strong>work in progress</strong>. The API is not stable and there might be compatibility <strong>breaking changes</strong> in future.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="getting-started"> <h1>Getting started</h1> <p>Assuming you use <a class="reference external" href="http://code.dlang.org/about">dub</a>, add this line:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> "tharsis.prof": { "version" : "~>0.1.0" } </pre> <p>to the <tt class="docutils literal">"dependencies"</tt> in your project's <tt class="docutils literal">dub.json</tt>/<tt class="docutils literal">package.json</tt>.</p> <p>Tharsis.prof requires DMD 2.066 or equivalent GDC/LDC.</p> <ul> <li><p class="first">Recording profiling data:</p> <pre class="code d literal-block"> <span class="keyword">import</span> <span class="name">tharsis</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">prof</span><span class="punctuation">;</span>

<span class="comment single">// Get 2 MB more than the minimum (maxEventBytes). Could also use malloc() here. </span><span class="keyword type">ubyte</span><span class="punctuation">[]</span> <span class="name">storage</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="keyword">new</span> <span class="keyword type">ubyte</span><span class="punctuation">[</span><span class="name">Profiler</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">maxEventBytes</span> <span class="punctuation">+</span> <span class="literal number integer">1024</span> <span class="punctuation"> 1024 </span> <span class="literal number integer">2</span><span class="punctuation">];</span> <span class="comment single">// Could use std.typecons.scoped! to avoid GC here. </span><span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="name">profiler</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="keyword">new</span> <span class="name">Profiler</span><span class="punctuation">(</span><span class="name">storage</span><span class="punctuation">);</span>

<span class="keyword">while</span><span class="punctuation">(!

<span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="name">frameZone</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="name">Zone</span><span class="punctuation">(</span><span class="name">profiler</span><span class="punctuation">,</span> <span class="literal string">&quot;frame&quot;</span><span class="punctuation">);</span>
<span class="punctuation">{</span>
    <span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="name">renderingZone</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="name">Zone</span><span class="punctuation">(</span><span class="name">profiler</span><span class="punctuation">,</span> <span class="literal string">&quot;rendering&quot;</span><span class="punctuation">);</span>

    <span class="comment single">// do rendering here

</span> <span class="punctuation">}</span>

<span class="punctuation">{</span>
    <span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="name">physicsZone</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="name">Zone</span><span class="punctuation">(</span><span class="name">profiler</span><span class="punctuation">,</span> <span class="literal string">&quot;physics&quot;</span><span class="punctuation">);</span>

    <span class="comment single">// do physics here

</span> <span class="punctuation">}</span> <span class="punctuation">}</span> </pre> </li> <li><p class="first">Visualizing profiling data in real-time:</p> <p>See the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/kiith-sa/despiker">Despiker</a> project (<a class="reference external" href="http://defenestrate.eu/docs/despiker/tutorials/getting_started.html">tutorial</a>).</p> </li> <li><p class="first">Processing profiling data in code:</p> <pre class="code d literal-block"> <span class="comment single">// Filter all instances of the "frame" zone </span><span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="name">zones</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="name">profiler</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">profileData</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">zoneRange</span><span class="punctuation">;</span> <span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="name">frames</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="name">zones</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">filter</span><span class="punctuation">!(</span><span class="name">z</span> <span class="punctuation">=></span> <span class="name">z</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">info</span> <span class="punctuation">==</span> <span class="literal string">"frame"</span><span class="punctuation">);</span>

<span class="comment single">// Sort the frames by duration from longest to shortest. </span><span class="keyword">import</span> <span class="name">std</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">container</span><span class="punctuation">;</span> <span class="comment single">// Builds an RAII array containing zones from frames. We need an array as we need // random access to sort the zones (ZoneRange generates ZoneData on-the-fly as it // processes profiling data, so it has no random access). </span><span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="name">frameArray</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="name">Array</span><span class="punctuation">!

<span class="keyword">import</span> <span class="name">std</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">stdio</span><span class="punctuation">;</span> <span class="comment single">// Print the 4 longest frames. </span><span class="keyword">foreach</span><span class="punctuation">(</span><span class="name">frame</span><span class="punctuation">;</span> <span class="name">frameArray</span><span class="punctuation">[</span><span class="literal number integer">0</span> <span class="punctuation">..</span> <span class="literal number integer">4</span><span class="punctuation">])</span> <span class="punctuation">{</span>

<span class="comment single">// In hectonanoseconds (tenths of microsecond)

</span> <span class="name">writeln</span><span class="punctuation">(</span><span class="name">frame</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">duration</span><span class="punctuation">);</span> <span class="punctuation">}</span>

<span class="comment single">// Print details about all zones in the worst frame. </span><span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="name">worst</span> <span class="punctuation">=</span> <span class="name">frameArray</span><span class="punctuation">[</span><span class="literal number integer">0</span><span class="punctuation">];</span> <span class="keyword">foreach</span><span class="punctuation">(</span><span class="name">zone</span><span class="punctuation">;</span> <span class="name">zones</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">filter</span><span class="punctuation">!(</span><span class="name">z</span> <span class="punctuation">=></span> <span class="name">z</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">startTime</span> <span class="punctuation">>=</span> <span class="name">worst</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">startTime</span> <span class="punctuation">&&</span> <span class="name">z</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">endTime</span> <span class="punctuation"><=</span> <span class="name">worst</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">endTime</span><span class="punctuation">))</span> <span class="punctuation">{</span>

<span class="name">writefln</span><span class="punctuation">(</span><span class="literal string">&quot;%s: %s hnsecs from %s to %s&quot;</span><span class="punctuation">,</span>
         <span class="name">zone</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">info</span><span class="punctuation">,</span> <span class="name">zone</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">duration</span><span class="punctuation">,</span> <span class="name">zone</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">startTime</span><span class="punctuation">,</span> <span class="name">zone</span><span class="punctuation">.</span><span class="name">endTime</span><span class="punctuation">);</span>

<span class="punctuation">}</span> </pre> </li> </ul> <p>For detailed documentation with more specific code examples, see the <a class="reference external" href="http://defenestrate.eu/docs/tharsis.prof/index.html">API documentation</a>.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="features"> <h1>Features</h1> <ul class="simple"> <li>Easy to use, RAII-style API for recording profiling data.</li> <li>Can be used together with <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/kiith-sa/despiker">Despiker</a> to visually profile a game in real time (<a class="reference external" href="http://defenestrate.eu/docs/despiker/tutorials/gettingstarted.html">tutorial).

  • Detailed API documentation with code examples.
  • Profile data can be analyzed in real time within a game (between frames, or top-level zones)
  • 10.txt</tt> and is also displayed here:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

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