Profiling
sqInt clearProfile(void);sqInt dumpProfile(void);
sqInt startProfiling(void);
sqInt stopProfiling(void);
defined as
int clearProfile(void){return 0;}
int dumpProfile(void){return 0;}
int startProfiling(void){return 0;}
int stopProfiling(void) {return 0;}
Parms: NONE
return: NONE, fake return of zero
From: Interpreter
Why:
To enable profiling.
Responsibility:
12 years back when light-speed C was the way to do macintosh development, and the windows and linux port still were underway the primitive tool set on the macintosh allowed you to collect run time statistics on call patterns and time to execute. To enable this you had to clear profiling, start profiling, stop profiling, and then dump profiling. Right so before the ability to have named primitived, plugins, FFI etc we dedicated a primitive or 4 to special purposes.
MacIntosh
os-9/OSXCarbon
all return 0
Cocoa:
TBD
iPhone
all return 0
Unix
all return 0
Windows
all return 1
BUGS
Windows returning 1 is meaningless, to fail a primitive you must set set the success flag
Really we could ditch these primitive
