Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 04:33:42 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: HELP...Gprof tore something up!
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:05:01 +0600 (LKT)
> > From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
> >
> > The -pg causes profiling code to be included in the executable which
> > results in a noticible performance hit..so please remove it...
> 
> That's not really true: all the profiling code does is to hook the
> timer tick interrupt and run a 5-line C function when the timer
> ticks.  For 18 times a second, this is nowhere near a performance
> hit.

Actually what made me make this comment is that from experience I find
that a program compiled with the -pg option seems to run way slower than
the same program without any optimisations ie just the -g switch.

Grendel

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