Context
Ocamlviz is a free software that was funded by Jane Street Capital within the framework of Jane Street Summer Project.
Purpose
The key idea of Ocamlviz is the ability to instrument an existing code, in real time, with lightweight monitoring annotations. Ocamlviz can also be used as a debugging tool.
Features
Here are a few possibilities provided by Ocamlviz:
- observe details about the garbage collector
- observe how many times the program goes through a point
- make a set of values (any) and count its cardinal number and its size in the heap
- observe how much time passed between two points of the program
- observe the value of integers, floating-point numbers, booleans and strings
- observe details about hash tables, like the number of empty buckets, or the filling rate
- etc ...
Visualization
Ocamlviz offers two sorts of client output:
- an ASCII client, the monitoring is displayed in a file
- a Graphical User Interface, using Lablgtk2, that allows, for instance, displaying data in a graph
