[LLVMdev] Removing legacy profiling code from LLVM

[Bob Wilson]

On Sep 13, 2013, at 11:05 AM, msharp at codeaurora.org wrote:

> Chandler Carruth wrote:
> 
>> Alright, I'm ready to nuke it. Last chance to say stop.
> 
> Stop.
> 
>> For context of others, this has come up repeatedly: no one we know of is
>> using EdgeProfiling.cpp, PathProfiling.cpp, and the
>> lib/Analysis/Profile*Pass.cpp collection of tools.
> We've been actively using it since at least 2.8.  True, we haven't been
> vocal about it.
> 
> While I can see perhaps getting rid of some of the older ProfileInfoT
> related stuff, certainly the instrumentation portion and the metadata
> loader (ProfileDataLoaderPass) portion are of use to us.
> 
> Isn't Bob Wilson also using, or at least interested in, some of the
> metadata based profiling too?

No, I am not interested in any of the things that Chandler has proposed to remove.

> 
> While we're talking about it, there are associated portions under
> runtime/libprofile that we're using too.
> 
>> ...I would like to garbage collect and help pave the way for new stuff.
> Have I missed a proposal somewhere?  I'd be interested to hear about what
> you've got in mind.

Yes, there have been several different discussions based on proposal from me and Diego.