Devel::NYTProf::Data(3)

NAME
Devel::NYTProf::Data - Devel::NYTProf data loading and manipulation

SYNOPSIS
  use Devel::NYTProf::Data;

  $profile = Devel::NYTProf::Data->new( { filename => 'nytprof.out' } );

  $profile->dump_profile_data();

DESCRIPTION
Reads a profile data file written by Devel::NYTProf, aggregates the contents, and returns the results as a blessed data structure.

Access to the data should be via methods in this class to avoid breaking encapsulation (and thus breaking your code when the data structures change in future versions).

NOTE the documentation is out of date and may not be updated soon. It's also likely that the API will change drastically in future. It's possible, for example, that the data model will switch to use SQLite and the http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?ORLite ORM.

Let me know if you come to depend on a particular API and I'll try to preserve it if practical.

METHODS

  new
  $profile = Devel::NYTProf::Data->new( );

  $profile = Devel::NYTProf::Data->new( {
    filename => 'nytprof.out', # default
    quiet    => 0,             # default, 1 to silence message
  } );

Reads the specified file containing profile data written by Devel::NYTProf, aggregates the contents, and returns the results as a blessed data structure.

  dump_profile_data
  $profile->dump_profile_data;
  $profile->dump_profile_data( {
      filehandle => \*STDOUT,
      separator  => "",
  } );

Writes the profile data in a reasonably human friendly format to the specified "filehandle" (default STDOUT).

For non-trivial profiles the output can be very large. As a guide, there'll be at least one line of output for each line of code executed, plus one for each place a subroutine was called from, plus one per subroutine.

The default format is a Data::Dumper style whitespace-indented tree. The types of data present can depend on the options used when profiling.

If "separator" is true then instead of whitespace, each item of data is indented with the path through the structure with "separator" used to separate the elements of the path. This format is especially useful for grep'ing and diff'ing.

  normalize_variables
  $profile->normalize_variables;

Traverses the profile data structure and normalizes highly variable data, such as the time, in order that the data can more easily be compared. This is mainly of use to the test suite.

The data normalized is:

•   profile timing data: set to 0

•   subroutines: timings are set to 0

•   attributes, like basetime, xs_version, etc., are set to 0

•   filenames: path prefixes matching absolute paths in @INC are changed to "/.../"

•   filenames: eval sequence numbers, like "(re_eval 2)" are changed to 0

  subs_defined_in_file
  $subs_defined_hash = $profile->subs_defined_in_file( $file, $include_lines );

Returns a reference to a hash containing information about subroutines defined in a source file. The $file argument can be an integer file id (fid) or a file path.

Returns undef if the profile contains no "sub_subinfo" data for the $file.

The keys of the returned hash are fully qualified subroutine names and the corresponding value is a hash reference containing Devel::NYTProf::SubInfo objects.

If $include_lines is true then the hash also contains integer keys corresponding to the first line of the subroutine. The corresponding value is a reference to an array. The array contains a hash ref for each of the subroutines defined on that line, typically just one.

  file_line_range_of_sub
  ($file, $fid, $first, $last, $fi) = $profile->file_line_range_of_sub("main::foo");

Returns the filename, fid, and first and last line numbers, and fileinfo object for the specified subroutine (which must be fully qualified with a package name).

Returns an empty list if the subroutine name is not in the profile data.

The $fid return is the 'original' fid associated with the file the subroutine was created in.

The $file returned is the source file that defined the subroutine.

Subroutines that are implemented in XS have a line range of 0,0 and a possibly unknown file (if NYTProf couldn't find a good match based on the package name).

Subroutines that were called but only returned via an exception may have a line range of undef,undef if they're xsubs or were defined before NYTProf was enabled.

  resolve_fid
  $fid = $profile->resolve_fid( $file );

Returns the integer file id that corresponds to $file.

If $file can't be found and $file looks like a positive integer then it's presumed to already be a fid and is returned. This is used to enable other methods to work with fid or file arguments.

If $file can't be found but it uniquely matches the suffix of one of the files then that corresponding fid is returned.

PROFILE DATA STRUTURE
XXX

LIMITATION
There's currently no way to merge profile data from multiple files.

SEE ALSO
Devel::NYTProf

AUTHOR
Adam Kaplan, "<akaplan at nytimes.com>" Tim Bunce, <http://www.tim.bunce.name> and <http://blog.timbunce.org> Steve Peters, "<steve at fisharerojo.org>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
 Copyright (C) 2008 by Adam Kaplan and The New York Times Company.
 Copyright (C) 2008,2009 by Tim Bunce, Ireland.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.