README.md

Avi Flax wrote a very interesting article about Profiling Node Programs on Mac OS X. However, if you manage your Node.js installation with homebrew, you can use the following hints to install the V8 debugger separately and run it using node-profile or coffee-profile.

I'm forking the gist https://gist.github.com/fhemberger/2000999 because the install.sh didn't work for me. so i'm documenting how I did itmanually)#

coffee-profile

#!/bin/sh

export D8_PATH=/usr/local/bin
coffee --nodejs --prof $@
echo "\rProcessing v8.log ..."
/usr/local/bin/tools/mac-tick-processor >> v8-processed.log

install.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "this is not a shell script! read the code"

# you probably installed v8 with brew, when you installed node with brew
# go find the source tar:
#     brew --cache
# and unpack it to /usr/local/src/
#     cd /usr/local/src/
#     tar xvfz /Library/Caches/Homebrew/v8-3.19.18.4.tar.gz 
#
# there is a bunchof tools (shell- and javascript) that you can copy to
# your bin right away:
#     copy -a tools /usr/local/bin/
#
# now you can prepare build v8 NATIVE!
# see http://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/BuildingWithGYP
#
#     cd /usr/local/src
#     make dependencies
#     make native
#
# the result should be out/native/d8. copy that:
#     cp out/native/d8 /usr/local/bin/d8
#
# now you can try out node-profile app.js !

node-profile

#!/bin/sh

export D8_PATH=/usr/local/bin
node --prof $@
echo "\rProcessing v8.log ..."
/usr/local/bin/tools/mac-tick-processor >> v8-processed.log