profiling question

[Amanda Clare]

I think this question was asked by someone else as part of another
thread back in January, but I couldn't find an answer on the list
archive. What do the zeros for "entries" mean in a time profiling
report? If I want to know why "getAppropriatePreds" takes up so much
time (14.7%) in my code, does the zero mean an overflowed count or that
the cost centre has never been entered? I'm using 5.04.2 on Linux, and
my program is compiled with -O -prof -auto-all.


  compose         InfrequentCheck   1137    12280580   2.1    2.5 
2.1    2.5
align            InfrequentCheck   1127           0   3.7    6.2     8.3 
    6.7
  align2          InfrequentCheck   1139     8577943   0.4    0.0 
0.4    0.0
  lookupModeArgs  InfrequentCheck   1136    86747940   4.2    0.4 
4.2    0.4
  getAppropriatePreds InfrequentCheck  1126        0  14.7    6.6 
14.7    6.6


Amanda