Quote: gprof estimates child time from call frequency; inaccurate for functional programs, common design patterns in object-oriented programs, and mutual recursion

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In order to minimize the time overhead imposed … total times spent in executing each subroutine … After execution is over, the self time of … in proportion to the number of calls on … The average time assumption is particularly likely to … [Functional languages] such as ML are likely to use … Similarly misleading profiles can result from common 'design … [For example, representing buttons as Command objects that invoke the execute method of various app objects.] … [gprof behaves] even worse with programs where there is …   Google-1   Google-2

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