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copied!<p>I ran ruby-profiler on one of my programs. I'm trying to figure out what each fields mean. I'm guessing everything is CPU time (and not wall clock time), which is fantastic. I want to understand what the "---" stands for. Is there some sort of stack information in there. What does calls a/b mean?</p> <pre><code>Thread ID: 81980260 Total Time: 0.28 %total %self total self wait child calls Name -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 5/6 FrameParser#receive_data 100.00% 0.00% 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 6 FrameParser#read_frames 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 4/4 ChatServerClient#receive_frame 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5/47 Fixnum#+ 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/2 DebugServer#receive_frame 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10/29 String#[] 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10/21 <Class::Range>#allocate 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10/71 String#index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100.00% 0.00% 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 5 FrameParser#receive_data 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 5/6 FrameParser#read_frames 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5/16 ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::OutputSafety#add_with_safety -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 4/4 FrameParser#read_frames 100.00% 0.00% 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 4 ChatServerClient#receive_frame 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 4/6 <Class::Lal>#safe_call -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/6 <Class::Lal>#safe_call 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/6 DebugServer#receive_frame 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 4/6 ChatServerClient#receive_frame 100.00% 0.00% 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.28 6 <Class::Lal>#safe_call 0.21 0.00 0.00 0.21 2/4 ChatUserFunction#register 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.06 2/2 ChatUserFunction#packet 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01 4/130 Class#new 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/1 DebugServer#profile_stop 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/33 String#== 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/6 <Class::Lal>#safe_call 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5/5 JSON#parse 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5/8 <Class::Log>#log 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5/5 String#strip! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </code></pre>

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