On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu> wrote:

Recent mention of the profiler prodded me to take a look at the profiler in 1.3. �Very nice! �Some "quick" changes that I think would be good:

(1) Shout in the code pane;
(2) Use tabs to show the gc data or the code;
(3) Add a tab to show the result rather than using a modal notifier (which probably quickly gets dismissed, and then missed<g>).

A non-quick change, if it's even possible... �Some of the slickest Dolphin goodies in existence include: Ian Bartholomew's ChunkBrowser (Pharo's lost changes is close and useful, but not the same) and Profiler, the SUnitBrowser (nicer than the SUnit test runner), and Ghoul.

Ghoul is well named. �It presents Dolphin crash dumps in a debugger-like view:

� �http://metagnostic.org/DolphinSmalltalk/Ghoul.html

If there is, or could/should be enough data in a profile to do the same thing, it would make an interesting addition. �Then interacting with the code includes the ability to see the values of variables.

Bill