Re: programing optimization

[dg tao-group com]

> Does anyone know of a (free?) utility that is capable of analyzing a program and
> telling me how much time is being spent and/or cpu usage being consumed by each
> function?  Thanks in advance to any who reply.

What you want is gprof. It's a standard component of most free Unices these
days.

What you do is compile your programs (if using gcc) with the -pg option. Then,
when you run them, the program will generate a huge log file. gprof analyses
this log file and gives you more profiling information than you ever wanted to
know.

I'm sending direct to you an example log I got from running pforth with
profiling enabled. It should let you see what sort of things it tells you.

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