Update help text for reworked profiling options

rakudo · May 19, 2019 · 31e534c · 31e534c
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commit 31e534c
Showing 1 changed file with 16 additions and 8 deletions.
diff --git a/src/Perl6/Compiler.nqp b/src/Perl6/Compiler.nqp
@@ -89,13 +89,19 @@ class Perl6::Compiler is HLL::Compiler {
     my $compiler := nqp::getcomp("perl6").backend.name;
     my $moar-options := '';
     if nqp::getcomp("perl6").backend.name eq 'moar' {
-        $moar-options := q♥  --profile[=kind]     write profile information to an HTML file
+        $moar-options := q♥  --profile[=name]     write profile information to a file
-                         instrumented - performance measurements (default)
+                         Extension controls format:
-                         heap - record heap snapshots after every garbage
+                           .json outputs in JSON
-                         collector run
+                           .sql  outputs in SQL
-  --profile-compile[=kind]
+                           any other extension outputs in HTML
-                       write compile-time profile information to an HTML
+  --profile-compile[=name]
-                       file
+                       write compile-time profile information to a file
+                       Extension controls format:
+                         .json outputs in JSON
+                         .sql  outputs in SQL
+                         any other extension outputs in HTML
+  --profile-kind[=name]
+                       choose the type of profile to generate
                          instrumented - performance measurements (default)
                          heap - record heap snapshots after every garbage
                          collector run
@@ -105,9 +111,11 @@ class Perl6::Compiler is HLL::Compiler {
                          .json outputs in JSON
                          .sql  outputs in SQL
                          any other extension outputs in HTML
+                       This option will go away in a future Rakudo release
   --profile-stage=stage
                        write profile information for the given compilation
-                       stage to an HTML file
+                       stage to a file. Use --profile-compile to set name
+                       and format
   --full-cleanup       try to free all memory and exit cleanly
   --debug-port=port    listen for incoming debugger connections
   --debug-suspend      pause execution at the entry point