I'm writing a simulation that will take hours or days to run. I've never used formal profiling tools but this seems like a good opportunity. I'm working on Linux and I'm still using FPC 1.0.10. What tools are available to me?

Thanks!

-Alan

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I'm writing a simulation that will take hours or days to run. I've never used formal profiling tools but this seems like a good opportunity. I'm working on Linux and I'm still using FPC 1.0.10. What tools are available to me?

For the moment only gprof. Maybe in the future also valgrind/cachegrind

Compile your program with -pg
Start your program (this will generate a gmon.out) Run gprof <executable>

I'm writing a simulation that will take hours or days to run. I've never used formal profiling tools but this seems like a good opportunity. I'm working on Linux and I'm still using FPC 1.0.10. What tools are available to me?

gprof. Recompile everything with -pg, there should be a paragraph about profiling in the manual somewhere.

Thanks Peter and Marco! This is very helpful.

-Alan

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