Subject: bug#15454: 24.3.50; The profiler does not show me all the run functions?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:34:35 +0300

> From: David Engster <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:22:11 +0200
> Cc: Sebastien Vauban <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> Stefan Monnier writes:
> > The profiler is based on sampling, so it can definitely "miss" things,
> > especially if we don't spend much time in them.
> 
> That's my experience, too. Reducing profiler-sampling-interval usually
> helps, though.

But in any case, the profiler is not an efficient tool to study how
complex things are implemented in Emacs (or any other program).
That's what debuggers are for.