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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:17:15 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ansar Mohammed <ansarm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: proflibs
Message-ID:  <20081011131715.GA63241@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <04b301c92ba1$8704fd70$950ef850$@com>
References:  <047701c92b4e$512236d0$f366a470$@com> <20081011095851.GA57170@icarus.home.lan> <04b301c92ba1$8704fd70$950ef850$@com>

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On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:01:50AM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> Are they needed for compiling anything from ports?

I have yet to find a port that *requires* profiled libraries.

They are only needed for developers wishing to "benchmark" code
(determine how long the system/processor stays within a specific
function), and use of profiled libraries has to be explicitly requested
(using gcc -p).

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