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Trace and Profiling Visitors

You can Trace and Profile the Visitors, components, methods execution within SOFA. To enable this option, you must compile SOFA with SOFA_DUMP_VISITOR_INFO defined in the compilation flags.

This option is enabled by default in your local configuration file.

• Meaning of the colors:
  • blue: Visitor
  • purple: Component
  • gray: Node
  • yellow: Comment

How to use it

The Visitors, and Components triggered by the visitors are automatically traced, and profiled.

To print a comment, add in your code:

simulation::Visitor::printComment("You Comment");

To trace and profile the execution of a part of your program, put, at the beginning of the code to profile:

simulation::Visitor::printNode("NameMethod");

and at end the process

simulation::Visitor::printCloseNode("NameMethod");

The method printNode can take other arguments to get a more detailed log; please refer to its API in the file modules/sofa/simulation/common/Visitor.h