About continuous profiling #5277

I think https://github.com/NoiseByNorthwest/php-spx could be made Swoole-friendly provided one uses PHP's builtin server for the visualization of the profiling and spx_profiler_start() and spx_profiler_stop() in the Swoole server while setting automatic start to 0

Then a UNIX domain socket could be used to inform the Swoole server to either enable or disable profiling during runtime (which - for instance - would modify a Swoole\Atomic variable)

If the message coming in over the UNIX domain socket is to enable, then the Atomic variable would be set to 1 and some INI settings might be set via ini_set() (See the SPX extension repository for help on this)
Also be sure to check out their ISSUES section as I recall I found one issue that helped me.

Finally, in the code that needs to be profiled, you might do something like:

global $profilingEnabled; // This is the Swoole\Atomic variable controlling if PROFILING is currently enabled

if ((int) $profilingEnabled->get() === 1) {
spx_profiler_start();
}

// ... Code to be profiled ....

if ((int) $profilingEnabled->get() === 1) {
spx_profiler_stop();
}

I have previously done this on a project, however there is one caveat:

All INI settings of PHP SPX profiler extension are PHP_INI_SYSTEM if I recall correctly, so what I ended up doing was to modify the source code of the SPX extension such that all INI settings were instead PHP_INI_ALL (meaning that they are modifyable from any context)

Just my 2 cents...