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On 26.05.2012 20:34, Georg wrote:
> I tried gprof to profile one of my programs. This is the ouput:
>
> Flat
> profile:
>
> Each sample counts as 0.0555556
> seconds.
>    %   cumulative   self              self
> total
>   time   seconds   seconds    calls  Ts/call  Ts/call
> name
>   87.39     11.56    11.56
> __dpmi_int
[...]

> My question is: is it normal that a djgpp program uses 87% for
> __dpmi_int?

It can be, depending on what the program does.  For a program that's 
spends a lot of its work in real-mode interrupts (like BIOS and DOS 
services) it's normal.  For computation-heavy ones, it wouldn't be.

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