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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/tools/src/cover.erl | 34 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/tools/src/cover.erl b/lib/tools/src/cover.erl index 50a812aa09..cc4f75f2e8 100644 --- a/lib/tools/src/cover.erl +++ b/lib/tools/src/cover.erl @@ -35,23 +35,37 @@ %% remote_process_loop/1. %% %% TABLES -%% Each nodes has an ets table named 'cover_internal_data_table' -%% (?COVER_TABLE). This table contains the coverage data and is -%% continously updated when cover compiled code is executed. +%% Each nodes has two tables: cover_internal_data_table (?COVER_TABLE) and. +%% cover_internal_clause_table (?COVER_CLAUSE_TABLE). +%% ?COVER_TABLE contains the bump data i.e. the data about which lines +%% have been executed how many times. +%% ?COVER_CLAUSE_TABLE contains information about which clauses in which modules +%% cover is currently collecting statistics. %% -%% The main node owns a table named -%% 'cover_collected_remote_data_table' (?COLLECTION_TABLE). This table -%% contains data which is collected from remote nodes (either when a -%% remote node is stopped with cover:stop/1 or when analysing. When -%% analysing, data is even moved from the ?COVER_TABLE on the main -%% node to the ?COLLECTION_TABLE. +%% The main node owns tables named +%% 'cover_collected_remote_data_table' (?COLLECTION_TABLE) and +%% 'cover_collected_remote_clause_table' (?COLLECTION_CLAUSE_TABLE). +%% These tables contain data which is collected from remote nodes (either when a +%% remote node is stopped with cover:stop/1 or when analysing). When +%% analysing, data is even moved from the COVER tables on the main +%% node to the COLLECTION tables. %% %% The main node also has a table named 'cover_binary_code_table' %% (?BINARY_TABLE). This table contains the binary code for each cover %% compiled module. This is necessary so that the code can be loaded %% on remote nodes that are started after the compilation. %% - +%% PARELLALISM +%% To take advantage of SMP when doing the cover analysis both the data +%% collection and analysis has been parallelized. One process is spawned for +%% each node when collecting data, and on the remote node when collecting data +%% one process is spawned per module. +%% +%% When analyzing data it is possible to issue multiple analyse(_to_file)/X +%% calls at once. They are however all calls (for backwardscompatability +%% reasons) so the user of cover will have to spawn several processes to to the +%% calls ( or use async_analyse_to_file ). +%% %% External exports -export([start/0, start/1, |