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From: Mayank Kumar <mayank@microsoft.com>
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Hi All,
I want to know if gprof's profling is solely dependent on the system call p=
rofil() or are there other implementations of gprof which do not depend on =
this system call.
Also is there a profiler available for freebsd or any unix system which is =
based on instrumentation rather then sampling.
Thanks in advance for the help

Thanks
Mayank