Re: Ada Shootout program for K-Nucleotide (patches)

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

On Sep 4, 7:56 pm, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>> Olivier Scalbert wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
>>>http://scalbert.dyndns.org/ada/knucleotide/callgrind_out_14048.txt
>
>> Let's see:
>
>> 43,644,857,598  PROGRAM TOTALS
>> [...]
>
>>             .
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>             .     --
>>             .     --  Calculate and write data - either a percentage
>> for all fragments found or - when
>>             .     --  Nucleotide_Fragment is given - the count for
>> that fragment.
>>             .     --
>>   262,499,981     procedure Write
>> 8,251,549,172  => ???:system__secondary_stack__ss_mark (7x)
>>             .       (Nucleotide_Length   : in Frequencies;
>>             .        Nucleotide_Fragment : in Fragment :=
>> Fragments.Null_Bounded_String)
>>             .     is

> I'm not familiar with this tool but if 'big numbers' for innocuous
> looking code is to be checked then what about:

Right.  The numbers, big or small, are "ticks" of valgrind's internal
virtual machine, or if you will, number of processor instructions
executed.  Olivier's annotated output hides the smallest numbers and
only shows the larger ones.

--
Ludovic Brenta.