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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and profiling!
Date: 15 Nov 2001 20:32:43 +0000
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Michael Andersson <michael@ida.his.se> writes:

> Hi!
> I want to use gcov to profile my code. The problem is that I want to
> compare one version of a program with a new version of the program to
> see weather or not I gained some performace. But from what I can se gcov
> counts how many times each line of code was executed. This would mean
> that each version would have to be executed an equal amount of time. I
> could use a counter for each function an print the contents of the
> counter each frame and then compare it the output from the other version
> of the program. This could become quite an effort since there are a lot
> of functions to compare.
> 
> Could I in some way use gcov to do this?

I would have thought gprof would do better?