From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 16:10:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A2537B403 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5E42B68C; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:10:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 48E0771D; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:09:59 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:09:59 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The cost of profiling support Message-ID: <20010907090959.G23013@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <68118.999789178@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <68118.999789178@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:12:58PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Is there a performance hit for having built profiling support into an > executable if the support isn't actually used? Yes and no. Not that it will show off as a performance hit in the program, but suddenly track is being kept of all the functions entered and returned from. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message