maxdepth option

[oxinabox]

On manythings I want to profile,
running ProfileView kills my computer.
Because it makes like a billion SVGs.

Profile.print takes a maxdepth kwarg.
That would be useful to have for ProfileView.view as well

[timholy]

Does that happen if you use the Gtk interface? I've not had that problem. Because I don't know the web side, I can't really maintain that, I depend on outside contributors.

[oxinabox]

Yes, GTK and SVG both do it.
Though I've never had GTK not freeze. (but I've also never had less than billions of things to show)
so maybe my GTK death is unrelated

[timholy]

Interesting. Can you give me a reproducible example? I'd rather not make success (or lack of crash) dependent on the user knowing to supply a particular kwarg.

[timholy]

If your calls are recursive, on Julia 1.4+ you can try the recur keyword.

[kimikage]

FYI, the maxdepth option is now supported in ProfileSVG, which was separated from this package.
https://kimikage.github.io/ProfileSVG.jl/v0.2/other-options/#maxdepth-and-maxframes

I don't know whether the GTK-based GUI still needs the maxdepth option.
cc: @oxinabox