Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!cornell!rochester!ur-tut!ur-cvsvax!merlin.cvs.rochester.edu!larry From: larry@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Basics of Program Design Summary: How to get execution time stats? Message-ID: <807@vax.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 88 00:45:52 GMT Sender: news@ur-cvsvax Reply-To: larry@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu.UUCP (Lawrence Snyder) Distribution: na Organization: Univ. Roch. Center for Visual Sci. Lines: 13 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