Re: How should this profiler report interpreted?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:28:26 +0000
> From:  scame via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
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> > > Does this mean the save-excursion call itself consumes 99% of the CPU?
> > Yes (assuming that nothing else went on in that Emacs session when you
> > profiled the function you were interested in).
> 
> Nothing else which consumes significant CPU, just the tested function.

Then I suggest to run this function many times with benchmark-run,
profile that run, and show the fully expanded profile you get.