HOWTO: using gprof with multithreaded applicationsWhat is gprof? gprof is the GNU Profiler, a tool used when tracking which functions are eating CPU in your program. Anyway, you should already be familiar with it if you got interested in this page. One problem with gprof under certain kernels (such as Linux) is that it doesn’t behave correctly with multithreaded applications. It actually only profiles the main thread, which is quite useless. Work
