[fpc-pascal] Profiling

[Jonas Maebe]

On 27 Jan 2009, at 11:30, Mattias Gärtner wrote:

> Zitat von Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:
>
>> I've used qprof successfully in the past (not for FPC programs, but
>> for other things). It's a sampling-based profiler, so it shouldn't
>> slow down things too much.
>
> Yes, that's why I prefer gprof and used it a lot in the past.

Note that I was talking about qprof (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/qprof/ 
), not gprof. As opposed to qprof (and Shark on Mac OS X), gprof is  
not a sampling-based profiler (gprof traces the entire execution).


Jonas