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Practical experience of the limitations of gprof
Author(s) -
Varley Dominic A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380230407
Subject(s) - profiling (computer programming) , unix , computer science , operating system , software
The Unix profiling tool Gprof produces an execution profile in which the time taken by each routine is added to that of its caller. This communication demonstrates that gprof generates a misleading profile when a routine is called from more than one module.