The new timing mechanism allows arbitrary portions of vm execution to
be measured.  When configured --with-timing, kaffe will print a
summary of all timings measured on exit.
 
Usage is simple:
#include "support.h"
 
foo()
{
        static timespent spent;
 
        startTiming(&spent, "foo");
        ...
        stopTiming(&spent);
}
 
When kaffe is configured for timing, the macro TIMING is defined and
this code does something useful.  When not configured for timing,
these statements are mostly harmless:
/* We either can't or wont perform timing:  The first macro suppresses
   unused variable warnings. */
typedef char timespent;
 
#define startTiming(C,N) (*(C) = 0)
#define stopTiming(C)
 
The timing mechanism counts the number of calls to startTiming for
each timespent structure, and measures user time with getrusage.