Gprof Tutorial

Gprof is a free and easy-to-use profiler.

Introduction

Introduce tutorial structure, topic and speaker

Gprof Introduction + Pascal Example

Provide everything to run and make use of gprof.

Quiz

1 {hidden begin |title = 1. What lanuages can gprof profile? }} {

	Python, Java, Julia
	C/C++, Fortran, Pascal
	Haskell, Cobol, Brainfuck

2 {hidden begin |title = 2. How does gprof profiles an application? }} {

	By instrumenting the application during compilation.
	Through static analysis of the source code

3 {hidden begin |title = 3. What compiler flag is used to instrument the application? }} {

	-pg
	-pig
	--profile

4 {hidden begin |title = How should the parameters be when running the instrumented application? }} {

	Simple and understandable
	Representative of the usual workload
	Covering edge cases

C++ + Fortran Examples

Show gprof in real world examples and introduce call graph.