This patch teaches llvm-profdata to output the sample profile in the
JSON format. The new option is intended to be used for research and
development purposes. For example, one can write a Python script to
take a JSON file and analyze how similar different inline instances of
a given function are to each other.
I've chosen JSON because Python can parse it reasonably fast, and it
just takes a couple of lines to read the whole data:
import json
with open ('profile.json') as f:
profile = json.load(f)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130944
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