From: Orion Hunter <orion2480@...>
Date: 2003-06-06T05:08:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinite Loop

How about using the ruby profiler??

$> ruby -r profile my_program.rb

It takes forever to run, but the ouput is useful in identifying which 
function calls take up most of the processing time, how many times each is 
called, etc.


>From: gm@navel.gr (George Moschovitis)
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: Infinite Loop
>Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:19:10 +0900
>
>Hi everybody,
>
>I 've written a fairly big ruby programm that works mostly ok.
>Sometimes the programm seems to enter an infinite loop :( Does anyone
>have a neat idea, how to debug this problem? Perhaps there is a hook
>in the interpreter to count recursive method calls that I can exploit
>or something similar?
>
>thanks in advance,
>George Moschovitis
>

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