Question about Gprof

I just got through playing around with Gprof and my results seem to be nonsensical. The program, a directory lister, ran for about ten seconds and then exited normally. The gmon.out file appeared and I ran it through Gprof. The problem is that the results only show the program running for 0.02 seconds. I am doing all of this under windows and I was wondering if that perhaps is the problem.

Thanks in advance for the help,

PetrolMan

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Originally Posted by PetrolMan

I just got through playing around with Gprof and my results seem to be nonsensical. The program, a directory lister, ran for about ten seconds and then exited normally. The gmon.out file appeared and I ran it through Gprof. The problem is that the results only show the program running for 0.02 seconds. I am doing all of this under windows and I was wondering if that perhaps is the problem.

Thanks in advance for the help,

PetrolMan

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Sounds about right. Compared to the glacially slow rate of reading from disk, your program did practically nothing at all. Instead it twiddled its thumbs for ten seconds.