Where do you actually need source location information in order to get Arc function names to show up in the profiler?
Would it be okay to track it just on symbols, bypassing all this list conversion and almost all of the Arc built-ins' unwrapping steps (since not many operation have to look "inside" a symbol)?
If you do need it on cons cells, do you really need it directly on the tail cons cells of a macro body? I'd expect it to be most useful on the cons cells in functional position. If you don't need it on the tails, then it's no problem when the `apply` strips it.
Oh, you know what? How about this: In `load`, use `read-syntax`, extract the line number from that syntax value, and then use `syntax->datum` and expand like usual. While compiling that expression, turn `fn` into (let ([fn-150 (lambda ...)]) fn-150) or (procedure-rename (lambda ...) 'fn-150), replacing "150" here with whatever the source line number is. Then the `object-name` for the function will be "fn-150" and I bet it'll appear in the profiling data that way, which would at least give you the line number to work with.
If you want, and if that works, you can probably have `load` do a little bit of inspection to see if the expression is of the form (mac foo ...) or (def foo ...), which could let you create a more informative function name like `foo-150`.
There's something related to this in `ac-set1`, which generates (let ([zz ...]) zz) so that at least certain things in Arc are treated as being named "zz". Next to it is the comment "name is to cause fns to have their arc names while debugging," so "zz" was probably the Arc variable name at some point.
mmm, not sure. It'd probably be easier to start with a working version (even if slow) and then remove source information from lists and see if anything breaks.
> In `load`, use `read-syntax`, extract the line number from that syntax value
erm, so all functions forms compiled during the eval of that expression would get named "fn-150"?
"erm, so all functions forms compiled during the eval of that expression would get named "fn-150"?"
That's what I mean, yeah. Maybe you could name them with their source code if you need to know which one it is, if it'll print names that wide. :-p This isn't any kind of long-term aspiration, just an idea to get you the information you need.
