> < ^ Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
> < ^ From: Craig Struble <cstruble@vt.edu >
> ^ Subject: Profile information in GAP4

Hello, I have a small question regarding the output of DisplayProfile() in
GAP4.1. I got the following output during one of my profiling sessions
(this just contains the relevant line: 

248141*   289400   -16740  ELM_LIST: For a compressed VecFFE

What does the * mean, and why is the chld/ms column negative? Does having
negative numbers in the profile affect the validity of the profile
results? That is, are the negative numbers ever occuring in a summation
for calculating times in the profile?

See ya later,
Craig
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Craig Struble (cstruble@vt.edu) Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Tech
http://www.acm.vt.edu/~cstruble/ Hopf - http://hal.cs.vt.edu/hopf

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