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From: larry@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Basics of Program Design
Summary: How to get execution time stats?
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Date: 8 Jul 88 00:45:52 GMT
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In article <430@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>To make this concrete, let me describe the profile output from a
>typical program after I have finished with it: The first few
>routines take about 5-10% of the execution time apiece.  The
>remaining routines take less than a few percent apiece of the
>execution time.

How did you get these statistics?
(I'm not challenging your numbers.
Obtaining a breakdown of execution time by function call sounds
like a real useful tool.)

thanx,
lar