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Re: gprof - output
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> > You are reading the results incorrectly. Your use of clock is
> > measuring what the gprof output describes as "cumulative seconds".
>
> Actually, "cumulative seconds" is just the time taken by a function
> (without its kids!) and all functions that took longer (are above it
> in the table), added together.
Whoops, you're quite right. Don't know what I was thinking.
Ian