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Profiling With prof

Profiling produces detailed information about program execution. You can use profiling tools to find the areas of code where most of the execution time is spent. In a typical program, a large part of the execution time is spent in relatively few sections of code. It is a good idea to concentrate on improving code efficiency in those sections first.

The topics covered below include:


Running the Profiler
prof Options

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