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Subject: Re: gprof on threaded applications on FreeBSD.
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Does FreeBSD support gprof on threaded applications?
> 
> If so, what versions did it start working on?
> 
> What libarary?  libthr?  libpthread?
> 
> Can we use something like this internally if it doesn't work?
> http://sam.zoy.org/writings/programming/gprof.html
> 
> 


have you tried it?

I did try it once before

and my VAGUE memory is that the results were of some use.

but I can't tell you much more than that.