Re: Question about simple profiling implementation

[Shachar Shemesh]

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On December 2, 2003 08:52 am, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > As you say, relay debugging adds a huge overhead... however, would you say
> > that this overhead would be fairly constant for each particular function?
>
> And herein lies the problem: we're adding a _big_ constant overhead (O)
> to a variable cost (c).

When you are trying to profile an application, you don't really care how 
much it takes to run. A profiling that makes the program run slower is 
not really a problem. Profiling that changes the relative weights of the 
program's parts are.

Shachar