gprof results

[Steve Holden]

Dave wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I googled to find an answer for my question, but had
> no luck. I'm trying to profile a Python program using
> gprof, but I don't understand what _moncount and
> mcount are. I couldn't find their source code under
> Python source tree. moncount takes about 30% of my
> program... What are _moncount and mcount for? Are they
> functions or variables? Any ideas?
> 
> Thank you for your help! 

Do you realise that you won't get any useful information about the 
Python program using gprof? That will give you information about the 
performance of the python interpreter itself, somewhat unrelated to the 
Python program it's running.

regards
  Steve
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