Is Profiling Useless in Today's World?

rngadam writes "gprof doesn't work in Linux multithreaded programs without a workaround that doesn't work that well. It seems that if you want to use profiling, you have to look for alternatives or agree with RedHat's Ulrich Drepper that "gprof is useless in today's world"... Is profiling useless? How do you profile your programs? Is the lack of good profiling tools under Linux leading us in a world of bloated applications and killing Linux adoption by the embedded developers? Or will the adoption of a LinuxThreads replacement solve our problems?"

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Re:Ulrich Drepper

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It's free software. Stop bitching and complaining about the way Ulrich did it. If you have a better way, write it up and it will probably be adopted. If not, STFU!