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+# Ticky-ticky profiling
+
+
+Ticky-ticky profiling adds counters to every STG function.  It's very low-level, but it really tells you what is going on:
+
+- Add the `-ticky` flag when compiling a Haskell module to enable "ticky-ticky" profiling of that module.  This makes GHC emit performance-counting instructions in every STG function.  
+
+- Add `-ticky` to the command line when linking, so that you link against a version of the runtime system that allows you to display the results.
+
+- Add `+RTS -rfoo.ticky` to the run-time command line, to put the ticky-ticky profile in the file `foo.ticky`.
+
+
+It's very low level stuff.  You need to use `-ddump-simpl -ddump-prep` when compiling the source files to see the functions that correspond to the performance counter report.
+
+
+You can mix modules compiled with `-ticky` and modules compiled without.
+
+
+To really see everything you need to compile all the libraries with `-ticky`.  To do that in a standard build tree, here are some flag settings in `build.mk` that work:
+
+```wiki
+# Build all libraries with -ticky
+GhcLibOpts += -ticky
+
+# Build the RTS in the ticky way
+GhcRTSWays += t
+
+# Currently ticky is incompatible with threading
+GhcThreaded = NO
+
+# When linking stage2 you need -ticky, else you get unresolved symols
+GhcStage2HcOpts += -ticky
+
+# Ditto Haddock
+utils/haddock_dist_EXTRA_HC_OPTS += -ticky
+```
+
+
+But see [\#3439](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/3439), which would allow you to drop the last two.
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+= Ticky-ticky profiling =
+
+Ticky-ticky profiling adds counters to every STG function.  It's very low-level, but it really tells you what is going on:
+
+ * Add the `-ticky` flag when compiling a Haskell module to enable "ticky-ticky" profiling of that module.  This makes GHC emit performance-counting instructions in every STG function.  
+
+ * Add `-ticky` to the command line when linking, so that you link against a version of the runtime system that allows you to display the results.
+
+ * Add `+RTS -rfoo.ticky` to the run-time command line, to put the ticky-ticky profile in the file `foo.ticky`.
+
+It's very low level stuff.  You need to use `-ddump-simpl -ddump-prep` when compiling the source files to see the functions that correspond to the performance counter report.
+
+You can mix modules compiled with `-ticky` and modules compiled without.
+
+To really see everything you need to compile all the libraries with `-ticky`.  To do that in a standard build tree, here are some flag settings in `build.mk` that work:
+{{{
+# Build all libraries with -ticky
+GhcLibOpts += -ticky
+
+# Build the RTS in the ticky way
+GhcRTSWays += t
+
+# Currently ticky is incompatible with threading
+GhcThreaded = NO
+
+# When linking stage2 you need -ticky, else you get unresolved symols
+GhcStage2HcOpts += -ticky
+
+# Ditto Haddock
+utils/haddock_dist_EXTRA_HC_OPTS += -ticky
+}}}
+But see #3439, which would allow you to drop the last two.
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