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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Shootout program for K-Nucleotide (patches)
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I cannot help more with gprof as I've never used it before but it
seems to me that profiling the unoptimized program is pointless. It is
much better to profile the fully optimized and inlined program; for
this I still recommend valgrind because it gives accurate measurements
for every instruction.

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Ludovic Brenta.