Added options for setting GOMAXPROCS and profiling output.

config.go

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ func getConfig() *config.Config {
 	shell := ""
 	debugMode := false
 	slomo := false
+	threads := 4
+	prof := ""
 
 	if flag.Parsed() == false {
 		flag.BoolVar(&showVersion, "version", showVersion, "Output version information")
@@ -35,6 +37,8 @@ func getConfig() *config.Config {
 		flag.StringVar(&shell, "shell", shell, "Specify the shell to use")
 		flag.BoolVar(&debugMode, "debug", debugMode, "Enable debug logging")
 		flag.BoolVar(&slomo, "slomo", slomo, "Render in slow motion (useful for debugging)")
+		flag.IntVar(&threads, "threads", threads, "Number of threads to use")
+		flag.StringVar(&prof, "prof", prof, "Run profiler and dump info to specifed file")
 
 		flag.Parse() // actual parsing and fetching flags from the command line
 	}
@@ -55,6 +59,8 @@ func getConfig() *config.Config {
 	} else {
 		conf = loadConfigFile()
 	}
+	conf.Prof = prof
+	conf.Threads = threads
 
 	// Override values in the configuration file with the values specified in the command line, if any.
 	if actuallyProvidedFlags["shell"] {

config/config.go

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ type Config struct {
 	SearchURL             string           `toml:"search_url"`
 	MaxLines              uint64           `toml:"max_lines"`
 	CopyAndPasteWithMouse bool             `toml:"copy_and_paste_with_mouse"`
+	Prof                  string           `toml:"prof"`
+	Threads               int              `toml:"threads"`
 }
 
 type KeyMappingConfig map[string]string

main.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/riywo/loginshell"
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
+	"runtime/pprof"
 )
 
 type callback func(terminal *terminal.Terminal, g *gui.GUI)
@@ -23,6 +24,16 @@ func main() {
 func initialize(unitTestfunc callback) {
 	conf := getConfig()
 	logger, err := getLogger(conf)
+	runtime.GOMAXPROCS(conf.Threads)
+	if conf.Prof != "" {
+		f, err := os.Create(conf.Prof)
+		defer f.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			logger.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		pprof.StartCPUProfile(f)
+		defer pprof.StopCPUProfile()
+	}
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Printf("Failed to create logger: %s\n", err)
 		os.Exit(1)