Profiler

[Luiji]

Are there any profiling tools for LOVE games?

[vrld]

Very (very) recently:
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[Luiji]

That's not what I meant, I meant a program that times how long each method of my game takes and how much memory each uses. It's good for finding memory leaks and stuff.

[TechnoCat]

Memory leaks in Lua?
PiL: 17 - Weak Tables

Lua does automatic memory management. A program only creates objects (tables, functions, etc.); there is no function to delete objects. Lua automatically deletes objects that become garbage, using garbage collection. That frees you from most of the burden of memory management and, more important, frees you from most of the bugs related to that activity, such as dangling pointers and memory leaks.

[Luiji]

Leaks were just an example of what a profiler does.

[Elvashi]

While leaks are something of a non-issue in Lua, for once I'm actually going have to agree with Luiji, Love needs a profiler. if it has one, then it needs to be more widely mentioned.
Guessing at what is and isn't performant is largely a fool's game, but we don't really have the tools to easily do otherwise.

[Luiji]

for once I'm actually going have to agree with Luiji

The "for once" is unrequired and only achieves making me feel bad about myself.

Love should have profiling built in, since it would be hard to implement any other way.

[bartbes]

Not true, why can't an external lib do this?

[hertzcastle]

it can already be done, but built in stuff is always more lovely.

[vrld]

I don't think there should be a profiler in love, as this is not relevant to the gamer.
Lovers should be able to use something like this: http://luaprofiler.luaforge.net/ or this: http://www.lua.org/pil/23.3.html if they need to.