Subject: bug#68693: 26.3; (elisp) `Profiling': Say how to use (e.g. read) a saved profile

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:48:17 +0000

The node says only this:

  You can save a profile to a file using 'C-x C-w'.

The doc says nothing about how to make use of such a saved profile, in
particular, how to read it into the profiler UI again.

I naively tried visiting the file and then `M-x
profiler-report-mode'. But that just showed a single line of 68K
characters.

In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''