ZEsarUX beta 5.1

[marste]

An old request but that I hope to see realized sooner or later (or I'll try myself when I'll complete all debugging and enhancements setup): is possible to have a flag to write a profile dump file?

To explain better:

It would be really useful to understand which part of the program is executed the most in order to optimize it the most. I think this is quite general.

A simple counter of number of instruction fetched at instruction level would be enough. A more elaborate way would be to add (not substitute) also the T-States spent, but this is really not so important since if you look well it's enough clear, even if there are instruction with T-States that depends on operands.

It can be a simple array of 64K long integers, initialized to 0 at the beginning, with cells incremented during instruction fetch, and simply written to a text file at the program exit.

Cesar, what do you think about it?

[chernandezba]

An old request but that I hope to see realized sooner or later (or I'll try myself when I'll complete all debugging and enhancements setup): is possible to have a flag to write a profile dump file?

Try Cpu transaction log (on debug menu)

[chernandezba]

The attachment is just to give you an idea of my use of trace and why I need a clean one.
This file is obtained with hexdump formatting and then imported into libreoffice.

Sorry I don’t understand what is this trace file about

[marste]

Try Cpu transaction log (on debug menu)

I already did, time ago, but the result was a file of many gigabystes even for a very small computation, and it has to be post-processed to arrive to the identification of the number of execution of each instruction!...

Anyway it is surely a good candidate place for the change!

[marste]

Sorry I don’t understand what is this trace file about

The trace on port $35 / $53 !

[chernandezba]

The trace on port $35 / $53 !

Hi
This is an old thread but I want to follow it as I have added ZEsarUX hardware debug ports for ZX80/81
I have chosen these ports 35H/53H for register/value ports, and I have added a new register port (6) to output a byte to a file. The file must be chosen from settings->debug->byte file setting

This is documented here:
https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux ... isters.txt


And I have created a simple ZX81 test program to do the outs:
https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux ... xi-ports.p

These two files are (of course) included on the ZEsarUX source code.
To test it, you must compile from sources or wait to the next beta or stable ZEsarUX build.

I hope this will be useful for you (and others)

Regards
Cesar

[marste]

Wow, you really "expanded" the concept, nice!!! )

[chernandezba]

Wow, you really "expanded" the concept, nice!!! )

Thanks