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24.3.50; The profiler does not show me all the run functions?

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 15454-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15454: 24.3.50;
 The profiler does not show me all the run functions?
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:14:30 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> The profiler is based on sampling, so it can definitely "miss"
>> things, especially if we don't spend much time in them.
[...]
> It might.  But a sampling profiler is fundamentally not very well
> adapted to the task.  `elp' or Edebug might be a better choice.
>
> In this case, the better option is probably to M-x debug-on-entry RET
> write-region RET, but of course, if you don't know that "writing a file"
> goes (pretty much unavoidably) through write-region you won't come up
> with this idea.


I think this is not a bug, as explained above.

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