For some systems, such as embedded Linux including ARM, we might want to
just compile libsysprof/sysprof-cli without the GTK user interface. This
allows for that. You can copy the capture files to your visualization
host to render the results.
This will make it easier to support installing just sysprof-cli and the
sysprofd helper daemon on systems where GTK is not feasible or necessary.
This does not, however, do that. It simply gets things broken up into
pieces.
Similar to the old sysprof, this generates a textual representation of the
descendants view. It matches the expansion of the treeview in the output
text.
When we see addresses in libgobject-introspection, give them the
"Introspection" tag to make it clear which library the symbol came from.
This is particularly useful since so many functions overlap with g_
prefixes.
Sometimes its really annoying to dive into a descendant and then want to
go back to where you were. This uses alt+left arrow to go back to the
previous node. It doesn't, however, re-expand the tree to the previous
state.
This is a major redesign a modernization of Sysprof. The core data
structures and design are largely the same, but it has been ported to
Gtk3 and has lots of additions that should make your profiling experience
smoother. Especially for those that are new to profiling.
There are some very simple help docs added, but we really need the
experts to come in and write some documentation here.
