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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ansar Mohammed <ansarm@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: proflibs
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:11PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> Can anyone explain what are the proflibs on the install media, and what they
> are for?

They're special versions of all the libraries that come with FreeBSD
which contain profiling code (code for determining the amount of time
spent within or between two functions).

They're for developers.

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