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NAME="PROFILE-FUNCTIONS">Chapter 52. Profiling functions</H1
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>In order for profile data to be gathered for an application, the
program has to initiate the process.
Once started, execution histogram data will be collected in a
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This is useful, especially for high resolution histograms, since
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saturated.
For example, if the histogram is being collected at a rate of 10,000
samples per second, a hot spot in the program could saturate after
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