[plt-scheme] Profiling Contracts

From: Dave Herman (dherman at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 18 12:41:31 EDT 2009

You can write your own wrapper:

#lang scheme/base

(require scheme/contract)
(provide provide/contract*)

(define-syntax provide/contract*
   (syntax-rules ()
     [(_ #:disable [name contract] ...)
      (provide name ...)]
     [(_ . rest)
      (provide/contract . rest)]))

Dave

Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Robby
> Findler<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I would just run the profiler to find out what I find out.
>>
>> But you can always just disable the contracts (define provide/contract
>> to be just provide, after stripping out the contracts) and then see
>> that way.
>>
> 
> That's still some rewriting...
>  It would be nice if it were possible to send a flag to
> provide/contract, such that if it is #t, contracts would not be
> applied at all and provide/contract would behave as provide.
> 
>> Robby
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Paulo J. Matos<pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to profile the time taken checking contracts?
>>> I have used contracts heavily in some parts of my model checker, many
>>> times checking things that are more than simple type checks... and would
>>> like to know if there is an easy way to know, 'hey for this exection, 5%
>>> of the time was spent checking contracts'. If there is nothing
>>> implemented to do this, are there any guidelines on how to find an
>>> approximation of this value?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Paulo Matos
>>>
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