How to get the call graph of a program with a bit of profiling information

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Published on 2010-03-13T17:27:39Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 17:55 UTC
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Hi,

I want to understand how a C++ program that was given to me works, and where it spends the most time.

For that I tried to use first gprof and then gprof2dot to get the pictures, but the results are sometimes kind of ugly.

How do you usually do this? Can you recommend any better alternatives?

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