From: infinity girl <entropic AT mpx DOT com DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: mcount, and gprof
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:26:41 +1100
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

hey all,


i was profiling a program today, and i would just like to know which
library functions call 
"mcount"?   my  program spends alot of time there.  i thort maybe it was
malloc..but not
alot of time is spent in malloc at all.

also, i was wondering if there is any way of making profiled programs
run faster...i am profiling a text compression/decompression program,
and it usually takes 11 seconds to compress a 2MB file, but with
profiling it took over half an hour

i understand there is alot of overhead..some of my functions were called
hundreds of thousands of times {like the function to retrieve one bit
from a buffered bitstream}.

but still..half an hour??


thanks fr any help,
daniel. 

:)