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From: bb@wjh12.harvard.edu (Brent Byer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compiler Costs -- profiling
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Date: 15 Jul 90 15:07:30 GMT
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In article <AGLEW.90Jul13090626@oberon.crhc.uiuc.edu> aglew@oberon.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes:
&     Unfortunately, most profilers do not have a way of indicating "X%
& of your time was spent in function calling". 

While not giving you a definitive "X%", I find that, using std "cc -p"/prof,
the % attributed to "mcount" is a very good indication of func call ovhd.

brent byer