- add warning that hotshot doesn't work well with threads

freddrake · freddrake · commit 621b443b8d35 · 2004-01-16T17:30:16.000Z
- fix some markup
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libhotshot.tex b/Doc/lib/libhotshot.tex
@@ -14,9 +14,15 @@ \section{\module{hotshot} ---
 written mostly in C, it should result in a much smaller performance impact
 than the existing \refmodule{profile} module.
 
-\begin{classdesc}{Profile}{logfile\optional{,
-                           lineevents\code{=0}\optional{,
-                           linetimings\code{=1}}}}
+\begin{notice}[warning]
+  The \module{hotshot} profiler does not yet work well with threads.
+  It is useful to use an unthreaded script to run the profiler over
+  the code you're interested in measuring if at all possible.
+\end{notice}
+
+
+\begin{classdesc}{Profile}{logfile\optional{, lineevents\optional{,
+                           linetimings}}}
 The profiler object. The argument \var{logfile} is the name of a log
 file to use for logged profile data. The argument \var{lineevents}
 specifies whether to generate events for every source line, or just on
