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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:05:06 -0200
From: "Thiago Galesi" <thiagogalesi@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] pahole and other DWARF2 utilities
Cc: "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@mandriva.com>,
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> >       Further ideas on how to use the DWARF2 information include tools
> > that will show where inlines are being used, how much code is added by
> > inline functions,
>
> It would be quite useful to be able to identify inlined functions which are
> good candidates for uninlining.
>
> -

Arnaldo, can't we get a call count for functions? (yes, it is not a
run-time call count, but rather, how many times the function if called
in the code) I guess this would help for this purpose of finding
candidates for inlining, uninlining.

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Thiago Galesi
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