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The GNU gprof profiler, gprof, allows you to profile your code. To use it, you need to perform the following steps: Build the application with settings for generating profiling information Generate profiling information by running the built application View the generated profiling inf...

For more complex applications, flat execution profiles may be difficult to follow. This is why many profiling tools also generate some form of annotated callgraph information. gperf2dot converts text output from many profilers (Linux perf, callgrind, oprofile etc.) into a callgraph diagram. You can...

Google Perf Tools also provides a CPU profiler, with a slightly friendlier interface. To use it: Install Google Perf Tools Compile your code as usual Add the libprofiler profiler library to your library load path at runtime Use pprof to generate a flat execution profile, or a callgraph diagram...