.TH PROF 1 "18 January 1983"
prof \- display profile data
.BI \- "low\fR [ \fB\-\fIhigh\fR ]"
is read and correlated with the
For each external symbol, the percentage
of time spent executing between that symbol
is printed (in decreasing order),
together with the number of times that routine was called
and the number of milliseconds per call.
If more than one profile file is specified,
the output represents the sum of the profiles.
In order for the number of calls to a routine to be tallied,
must have been given when the file containing the
This option also arranges for the
profile file to be produced automatically.
all symbols are reported rather than
the output is sorted by symbol value.
the output is sorted by number of calls
a summary profile file is produced in
This is really only useful
when more than one profile file is specified.
all printing is suppressed
and a graphic version of the profile
on the standard output for display by the
When plotting, the numbers
by default 0 and 100, may be given to cause a selected
percentage of the profile to be plotted
with accordingly higher resolution.
routines which have zero usage (as indicated by call counts
and accumulated time) are nevertheless printed in the output.
mon.sum for summary profile
monitor(3), profil(2), cc(1), plot(1)
Beware of quantization errors.
which puts the entry points at the bottom of subroutines and functions.