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[Luca Invernizzi <invernizzi.l@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Paul Natsuo Kishimoto
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> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 01:06 +0200, Luca Invernizzi wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 06:55:44PM -0400, Paul Natsuo Kishimoto wrote:
>> >   This seems to indicate that the test harness itself is taking 87% of
>> > the execution time — no?
>> No. they're cumulative times. Test frameworks takes 2.7% of time.
>
> I'm referring to the node on the second-to-last level from the bottom:
>
>                       tree_testing:91:reordered
>                                 87.81%
>                                (85.20%)
>                                  298×
>
> I am using the key at
> http://code.google.com/p/jrfonseca/wiki/Gprof2Dot#Output
>
> As far as I can tell, this means: "The function reordered() at line 91
> of the file tree_testing(.py) is called 298 times in total and takes
> 87.81% of the total execution time that is profiled. 85.20% of the total
> execution time is in reordered(); the remaining (87.81-85.20=) 2.61% is
> in functions which are called by reordered()."
>
> Is this incorrect? If so, what is the proper way to interpret the
> results?
>
Yes, that's correct. I misunderstood your words: for "test harness
itself" I thought you were referring to the test framework (UnitTest)
> --
> Paul Natsuo Kishimoto
> SM candidate (2012), Technology & Policy Program
> MIT Engineering Systems Division       (ESD/TPP)
>
> http://paul.kishimoto.name          +16173026105
>