Inheritance Profiles of Process Functional Programs

An execution profiling attempts to provide feedback by reporting to the programmer information about inefficiencies within the program. Instead of writing whole code highly optimized, the programmer can initially write simple, maintainable code without much concern for efficiency. Profiling is an effective tool for finding hot spots in a program or sections of code that consumes most of the computing time and space. The paper presents already implemented execution profiler for process functional program. From the viewpoint of implementation, process functional language is between an impure eager functional language and a monadic lazy pure functional language. The key problem of execution profiling is to relate gathered information about an execution of the program back to the source code in well-defined manner. The paper defines language constructs for monitoring resource utilization during the program execution. In our solution programmer can associate label with each expression in a program. All resources used during the evaluation of a labeled expression are mapped to the specified label. The paper is concerned with creating of inheritance profiles. Inheritance profile can reduce the time spent with program profiling. Research results are presented on sample program illustrating different types of time and space profiles generated by already implemented profiler for process functional programs.