Adding some comments to profiling-stuff

--HG--
branch : bgschaid/minorAdditionsBranch

bin/listProfileInformation.py

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-#! /usr/bin/python
+#! /usr/bin/env python
+
+# Lists the profiling information in time directories (uniform/profilingInfo)
+# in a human readable form
 
 from PyFoam.RunDictionary.ParsedParameterFile import ParsedParameterFile
 import sys
@@ -14,6 +17,11 @@ for p in pf["profilingInfo"]:
     if p["id"] in data:
         print "Duplicate definition of",p["id"]
         sys.exit(-1)
+    if p["description"][0]=='"':
+        p["description"]=p["description"][1:]
+    if p["description"][-1]=='"':
+        p["description"]=p["description"][:-1]
+
     data[p["id"]]=p
     if "parentId" in p:
         if p["parentId"] in children:
@@ -46,7 +54,7 @@ def nameLen(i,d=0):
     maxi=len(data[i]["description"])
     if i in children:
         maxi=max(maxi,max([nameLen(j,d+1) for j in children[i]]))
-    return maxi+2
+    return maxi+3
 
 maxLen=nameLen(root)
 
@@ -62,7 +70,7 @@ def printItem(i):
     if depths[i]>1:
         result+="  "*(depths[i]-1)
     if depths[i]>0:
-        result+="|-"
+        result+="|- "
     result+=data[i]["description"]
     result+=" "*(maxLen-len(result)+1)+"| "
 

src/OpenFOAM/global/Profiling/Profiling.H

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ Class
 Description
     Add everything necessary for Profiling plus a macro
 
+    Originally proposed in
+    http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam-bugs/64081-feature-proposal-application-level-profiling.html
+
 SourceFiles
 
 \*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
@@ -36,9 +39,14 @@ SourceFiles
 
 #include "ProfilingTrigger.H"
 
+// to be used at the beginning of a section to be profiled
+// profiling ends automatically at the end of a block
 #define addProfile(name) Foam::ProfilingTrigger profileTriggerFor##name (#name)
+
 // Use this if a description with spaces, colons etc should be added
 #define addProfile2(name,descr) Foam::ProfilingTrigger profileTriggerFor##name (descr)
+
+// this is only needed if profiling should end before the end of a block
 #define endProfile(name) profileTriggerFor##name.stop()
 
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