On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Pure Krome wrote:
->Could you please elaborate on what this profiler thingy does? could it be used
->to dertermine where bad memory lies (ie. areas of code that could possibly be
->using memory and not freeing em, etc ...). What about slow / laggy areas of
->code ?
Well, I assume you don't have the 'man' command, so from the gprof man
page,
Gprof calculates the amount of time spent in each routine. Next,
these times are propagated along the edges of the call graph.
Cycles are discovered, and calls into a cycle are made to share the
time of a cycle.
-dak
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