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sprof

Read and display shared object profiling data. Note: Requires profile data generated via the $LD_PROFILE environment variable. More information: https://manned.org/sprof.

• Generate a flat profile and call graph (default output):

sprof {{path/to/library.so}} {{path/to/library.so.profile}}

• Generate a flat profile with counts and ticks:

sprof {{[-p|--flat-profile]}} {{path/to/library.so}} {{path/to/library.so.profile}}

• Generate a call graph:

sprof {{[-q|--graph]}} {{path/to/library.so}} {{path/to/library.so.profile}}

• Print call pairs and their usage counts:

sprof {{[-c|--call-pairs]}} {{path/to/library.so}} {{path/to/library.so.profile}}

• Use profile data from current directory (auto-detected by soname):

sprof {{path/to/library.so}}