Re: How should this profiler report interpreted?

[Emanuel Berg]

scame wrote:

> I have a function which I use to process some files and it
> works slowly with bigger files. I tried to profile it and
> I got this output. Only the relevant part is shown:
>
>  - save-excursion                                     9817  99%
>   - insert                                               2   0%
>    - jit-lock-after-change                               1   0%
>     - run-hook-with-args                                 1   0%
>        font-lock-extend-jit-lock-region-after-change     1   0%
>
> Does this mean the save-excursion call itself consumes 99%
> of the CPU?

To me it looks like it means the tool isn't up for the job :)

Interesting question BTW! How did you do it, exactly?

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