Profiling Silex controller actions in the Web Profiler timeline
The WebProfilerServiceProvider brings the Symfony Profiler to Silex apps, and with it the nice "Timeline" feature, detailing for each request cycle the time spent handling each event dispatched by the EventDispatcher, from kernel.request to kernel.terminate, with detail time spent in each individual listener.
The timeline looks like this one:
This is all nice and well, but there is a problem with this timeline: although the beginning and end of the request cycle is profiled in depth, it represents less than half of the total time spent for this request.
More than half of the total request time is spent in the controller, and this example does not even perform any database access, which would make the controller represent event more of the total time, making the detailed analysis of the beginning and end of the request cycle less relevant.
What would make sense would be to subdivide the time spent in the controller in much the same way the time spent in the event listeners is already plotted. Is there a simple way ? Sure: let us see how the profiler works.