On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:21:14PM -0400, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 6/19/17 6:03 PM, Chris Cooper wrote: > > If you profile on Mac, now is your chance to speak up. What other profiling > > tools do you use that we should be aware of? > > Instruments for targeted profiling, though I mostly do that on my own > builds, not mozilla.org nightlies. The sampling tool in Activity Monitor > for opportunistic "my browser just hung" profiling of my nightly. > > The Gecko profiler doesn't work for the "my browser just hung" case, > obviously, and is so far a much worse user experience than Instruments for > normal profiling. I end up using it mostly for "something was just slow, > what was it?" profiling, mostly. > > The other thing stripping would affect is debugging. And yes, I've had to > attach a debugger to a nightly a few times to figure out something when I > ran into a problem while browsing. The symbols we have are not great for > debugging, but they're a lot better than nothing.
You can actually download the full symbols (and that won't change). Use https://hg.mozilla.org/users/jwatt_jwatt.org/fetch-symbols/raw-file/27a61dd0bcab/fetch-symbols.py to get them. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
