gprof - output

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Tue Mar 30 20:53:00 GMT 2004


Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> > You are reading the results incorrectly.  Your use of clock is
> > measuring what the gprof output describes as "cumulative seconds".
> 
> Actually, "cumulative seconds" is just the time taken by a function
> (without its kids!) and all functions that took longer (are above it
> in the table), added together.

Whoops, you're quite right.  Don't know what I was thinking.

Ian



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