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Profiling a Program: Where Does It Spend Its Time?
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This manual describes the GNU profiler, `gprof', and how you can use it
to determine which parts of a program are taking most of the execution
time.  We assume that you know how to write, compile, and execute
programs.  GNU `gprof' was written by Jay Fenlason.

   This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation License.  A copy of the license is included in the
section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Introduction

What profiling means, and why it is useful.

Compiling

How to compile your program for profiling.

Executing

Executing your program to generate profile data

Invoking

How to run `gprof', and its options

Output

Interpreting `gprof''s output

Inaccuracy

Potential problems you should be aware of

How do I?

Answers to common questions

Incompatibilities

(between GNU `gprof' and Unix `gprof'.)

Details

Details of how profiling is done

GNU Free Documentation License

GNU Free Documentation License