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Re: Which platforms do/do not support cpu time profiling?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Which platforms do/do not support cpu time profiling? |
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Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:56:54 -0800 |
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On 11/19/2012 05:25 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Which are the platforms which do/do not support this?
It's pretty universal these days. BeOS doesn't support it,
but that's the only platform I know offhand.
> There is a configure option --enable-profiling which you might think has
> something to do with this, but it doesn't. Is that option still useful,
Yes. The terminology clash is unfortunate, but both things are
called "profiling" so we probably should apply an adjective to
the low-level profiling, e.g., "gprof style profiling", at least
in the help string and perhaps in the switch itself.