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Date:      Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:09:59 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The cost of profiling support
Message-ID:  <20010907090959.G23013@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <68118.999789178@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:12:58PM %2B0200
References:  <68118.999789178@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>

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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

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