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    Back to basics – gprof PT1 (generating a profile)

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    A while ago at work we were discussing the pros and cons of the classic Linux profiler gprof… What are profiles useful for? The output of a profile run against a very simple program looks like the example below. It tells us that of the 5.82 seconds of profiled runtime It also tells us that […]