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- What is bprof?
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- bprof is a utility that provides execution profiling per source code
- line. This means that it detects how much time your program spends in
- each line of your source code. This allows you to know precisely on
- what part of the program to spend your efforts at speeding it up.
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- How to install bprof
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- Type: "make all". This should create a program bprof and a library
- libbmon.a. If everything is ok, type "make install" to install the
- program, the library and the manpage. If you like to install it under
- /usr/local, do "make install PREFIX=/usr/local".
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- How to use bprof
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- Please read the manpage. A groff-ed version should be present in the
- distribution as bprof.cat.
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- Where to send feedback
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- Please send comments, suggestions, bugs and such to bas@phys.uva.nl.
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- Whose perverse mind created this?
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- It was the mind of Bas de Bakker.
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- Known problems
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- The signal stack has changed in the past. If you have a very old
- Linux kernel (older than 0.99p13), you may be out of luck.
-
- bprof does not work on elf or coff executables. If you don't know
- what I'm talking about, you won't have them, so don't worry.
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