Is Profiling Useless in Today's World?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday July 5, 2002 @06:27AM from the optimization-shmoptimization dept.

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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The headline makes it sound like... by Anixamander · 2002-07-05 06:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

a yro article.

My first instinct was to agree with the headline, since Jose Padilla is hispanic. It would have at least made for a more interesting discussion.

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j00g by VAXGeek · 2002-07-05 06:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

i racially profile my programs.

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