1PROF(1) General Commands Manual PROF(1)
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6 prof - display profile data
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9 prof [ -v ] [ -a ] [ -l ] [ -low [ -high ] ] [ file ]
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12 Prof interprets the file mon.out produced by the monitor subroutine.
13 Under default modes, the symbol table in the named object file (a.out
14 default) is read and correlated with the mon.out profile file. For
15 each external symbol, the percentage of time spent executing between
16 that symbol and the next is printed (in decreasing order), together
17 with the number of times that routine was called and the number of mil‐
18 liseconds per call.
19 If the -a option is used, all symbols are reported rather than just
21 external symbols. If the -l option is used, the output is listed by
22 symbol value rather than decreasing percentage.
23 If the -v option is used, all printing is suppressed and a graphic ver‐
25 sion of the profile is produced on the standard output for display by
26 the plot(1) filters. The numbers low and high, by default 0 and 100,
27 cause a selected percentage of the profile to be plotted with accord‐
28 ingly higher resolution.
29 In order for the number of calls to a routine to be tallied, the -p
31 option of cc must have been given when the file containing the routine
32 was compiled. This option also arranges for the mon.out file to be
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36 mon.out for profile
37 a.out for namelist
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40 monitor(3), profil(2), cc(1), plot(1)
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43 Beware of quantization errors.
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