gprof

Performance analysis tool for many programming languages. It profiles the function executions of a program. More information: <https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gprof-2.9.1/html_mono/gprof.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/gprof.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install binutils
Ubuntu
apt-get install binutils
Alpine
apk add binutils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S binutils
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install binutils
CentOS
yum install binutils
Fedora
dnf install binutils
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install binutils
OS X
brew install binutils
Raspbian
apt-get install binutils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/gprof
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/gprof gprof powered by Commando

Performance analysis tool for many programming languages. It profiles the function executions of a program. More information: <https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gprof-2.9.1/html_mono/gprof.html>.

  • Compile binary with gprof information and run it to get `gmon.out`:
    gcc -pg program.c && ./a.out
  • Run gprof to obtain profile output:
    gprof
  • Suppress profile field's description:
    gprof -b
  • Display routines that have zero usage:
    gprof -bz

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