Doing Profiling

[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 12 of December 2002 11:00, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:59:04PM +0100, Harri Porten wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Christian Esken wrote:
> > > Anybody knows how to get timings?
> >
> > Use (k)cachegrind.
>
> or oprofile. much faster and gives you
> whole system profiling rather than just
> the single program you run.

 You have managed to get any useful data from oprofile? How? It can't do 
callgraphs, which makes it pretty useless for profiling single apps. And 
since AFAIK it does system-wide profiles only per binary/library instead of 
per PID, it's not very helpful for e.g. profiling KDE startup either.
 
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Lubos Lunak
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