Re: [Valgrind-users] Expected slowdown

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:

> I have attached a profiling session of about 2 hours. If you would like to
> have a profile for another event I will provide it.
>
> I guess the first two entries are from code generated by valgrind. They take
> about 51% of the runtime. Does this mean that the generated code is 34 times
> slower than the  native one?

I guess so.  All the C calls are expensive, because they require register 
saving/restoring and argument setup.

The profile looks a lot more like the ones we're used to seeing, in terms of 
what is taking up most of the time.

Nick