Mod doesn't show up in profiler view unless it has the on_tick event registered

[stevenwdv]

It seems that a mod doesn't show up in the profiler flame panel if it has not registered an 'on tick' handler, even if it has an empty function.

Compare:

Without on_tick, I don't see my mod:

With on_tick, ah there it is!:

In both cases I'm selecting a number of large areas with my selection tool.

[justarandomgeek]

It doesn't report until it accumulates profileUpdateRate of hits per mod. Without the on_tick you're probably not hitting it enough. You can remote.call("profiler","dump") to make it dump everything it's got collected but not dumped yet immediately.

[stevenwdv]

Hm, so is that the number of times it calls a certain function? Or is it the number of times it sampled some line in the mod? Because if it's about execution time then it should find my mod, as for a large selection it would normally take a couple of seconds (with processing code not shown here), but still does not show up.

[justarandomgeek]

the number of times it makes a top level entry into that mod's lua

[stevenwdv]

Ah okay I guess that is the problem then

[stevenwdv]

Would it be possible to also take the execution time of each mod into account?

[justarandomgeek]

not really, no. But you can just adjust profileUpdateRate in your launch config