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Re: Re: wait a minute
Monday, 15-Feb-99 15:53:38

profilers do such statistical work. i.e. they check each 0.1 sec (or 0.01, or whatever; could be tunable eventually) where you are, and log it. So if u enter save-as part, and walk around it many time times, after exit u'll have a detailed statistical chart (e.g. bar-chart) that shows how many hits u have at what location, relatively to the total number of hits, or relatively to total number of hits in some module, or function, or whatever.
THis is used to get a statistical view over which parts of code ar heavily used, and optimize ONLY them. But, as most programming tools, it could have 2nd use, not so creative ;)
BUT i did'nt heard about a profiler that works on any program. ANYONE has an idea?

did i understand u or we are talking about different things again? :)

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