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From: Georg <dosusb AT googlemail DOT com>
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Subject: gprof output
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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
  3.78     12.06     0.50
__brk
  1.68     12.28     0.22
__dpmi_simulate_real_mod
  1.68     12.50     0.22
days_to_years
  1.68     12.72     0.22
timesub
  0.84     12.83     0.11
tmcomp
  0.42     12.89     0.06
GdMoveMouse
  0.42     12.94     0.06
MOU_Read
  0.42     13.00     0.06
TT_RunIns
  0.42     13.06     0.06
elapse_timeouts()
  0.42     13.11     0.06
__dj_movedata
  0.42     13.17     0.06
_int86
  0.42     13.22     0.06
tmnormalize
  0.00     13.22     0.00    23310     0.00     0.00
dStr_append_c

My question is: is it normal that a djgpp program uses 87% for
__dpmi_int? If not, what could be done to reduce this?

Georg