[x264-devel] Re: configure script

[Måns Rullgård]

Sam Hocevar said:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005, Johannes Reinhardt wrote:
>
>> here is a patch adding a new option to the configure script: --enable-gprof
>
>    With today's CPU speeds, is gprof useful at all? I would rather not
> promote the use of gprof when vastly superior tools such as oprofile or
> sysprof exist.

Oprofile is based on sampling, which is good for finding hotspots, but useless
for constructing call graphs.  To get accurate call graphs, some form of code
instrumentation must be used, which is where gprof can come in handy.

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