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Profiling a Program: Where Does It Spend Its Time?

   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".