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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
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Subject: Re: Interesting performance quirk.
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:54:10 +0100
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Peter C. Chapin wrote:

> I tried running gprof over my code to see what I could learn, but I
> don't know how to use that tool very well yet so I didn't learn much. I
> discovered that a certain procedure is called a HUGE number of times,
> but that's not unexpected considering where it's used. It's a small
> procedure so I might try inlining it.

I'd also recomend valgrind with, e.g., kcachegrind to visualize the results. It might be easier to get into than gprof, and doesn't require special parameters to build the executable.