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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2001-10-04 17:00:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2001-10-04 17:00:07 (GMT) |
| commit | a68ca35a8bc56d572ac6ab343ce6359bbd3ab5cc (patch) | |
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Add note about profiling.
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@@ -559,6 +559,21 @@ Additional debugging code to help debug memory management problems can be enabled by using the --with-pydebug option to the configure script. +Profiling +--------- + +If you want C profiling turned on, the easiest way is to run configure +with the CC environment variable to the necessary compiler +invocation. For example, on Linux, this works for profiling using +gprof(1): + + CC="gcc -pg" ./configure + +Note that on Linux, gprof apparently does not work for shared +libraries. The Makefile/Setup mechanism can be used to compile and +link most extension module statically. + + Testing ------- |