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From: dwc@homxc.UUCP (Malaclypse the Elder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Software performance
Keywords: prof gprof cc
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Date: 13 Jun 88 20:47:03 GMT
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> Check out the prof(1), and gprof(1) manuals, as well as the -p and -pg options
> of cc(1). That should give you what you want. I use gprof(1) personally.
> 
see "inaccuracies in program profilers" by carl ponder and richard fateman
in software practice and experience, may 1988 to read about the limitations
of sampling based program profilers.

we are presenting a paper in the upcoming usenix conference on a new tool
that actually measures the elapsed time spent in a function rather than
using a sampling method.  the paper is titled "CASPER the friendly daemon".

danny chen
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