profile.lua

local _profile = appleCake.profile("love.update")

local function bar()
  local _profileBar = appleCake.profile("bar", {}) -- Initalizing args to an empty table as it's nil by default
  --...
  local _profileBarSet = appleCake.profile("bar set") -- Example of nested profiling
  _profileBar.args.value = 12
  _profileBarSet:stop() -- This could stop after _profileBar:stop() if you wanted
  --...
  _profileBar:stop()
end

local _profile --Example of reusing profiles to save creating garbage, recommended
local function foo()
	_profile = appleCake.profile("foo", {num=5}, _profile) --("foo", nil, _profile), if you didn't have any args
	--...
	_profile.args["bar - 2"] = bar - 2
	_profile:stop()
end