From:	dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer)
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Subject:	Re: Function and File ordering and speed optimization
Date:	Wed, 07 Feb 2001 09:57:32 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On 6 Feb 2001, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> > Steamer <dontmailme AT iname DOT com> wrote:
> > > The profiler doesn't tell you how to order the functions.
> > 
> > You haven't seen all of gprof, yet.  It does offer such an ordering, as
> > one possible alternative output.

Hmm, yes, so it does.

> > gprof is notoriously incompletely documented
> 
> Actually, I think the current versions of gprof.info are quite good.  
> This particular option is --function-order, and is documented in the 
> manual quite clearly.

Unfortunately, gprof.info contains no information.  The real information
is in gprof.i1 and gprof.i2, which are not included in bnu210b.zip.
So when I typed "info gprof", I just got the man page (which doesn't
mention --function-ordering), otherwise I would have noticed my mistake
before posting.

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