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Subject: Run a LONG time Re: VC++ Profiler and Tom Kerringan

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 06:59:49 06/07/00

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On June 07, 2000 at 04:20:01, Masciulli Gianluigi wrote:

>I tried the MS VC++ 6.0 Profiler on golem (my program) but is not usefull
>because is too much "random".
>If you run it 2 times You will get completely different results.
>I remember some time ago tom had the same problem and there was an interesting
>treadh here.
>Can somebody help me to find it or recall me what was the solutions for this
>problem?
>
>TIA
>
>glm

I have used the profiler and not found it to be "random".  It does slow things
down by about a factor of 100-1000x, so the test scenario has to run long enough
for the "randomness" to become noise (say a couple of minutes per "second" of
normal, non-profiled runtime).



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