DPROF2CALLTREE(1)

💅 DPROF2CALLTREE(1) — the General Commands Manual era 🎀

okay bestie, so this is dprof2calltree, a lil tool from the KDE Software Development Kit. no cap, it's a converter. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

dprof2calltree — converts perl's DProf profiling data into KCachegrind calltree format. literally that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dprof2calltree -f input [ -o output ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: dprof2calltree reads the tmon.out profiling data — the stuff that Perl's Devel::DProf profiling package spits out — and converts it into calltree format so KCachegrind can use it. it's giving translator. it's giving bridge between two worlds 🌈

and psa: this utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. so it's official. it's got a family. periodt 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f input — tells it which DProf tmon.out file to convert. the main character argument fr fr
• -o output — writes the calltree output to the file you name, for KCachegrind to snack on. if you don't pass this one, the output gets written to a file of the form cachgrind.out.<input>. yep, that spelling. we don't question it, we just respect it 🙈

🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

say you run a perl script like this:

perl -d:DProf yourscript.pl

then boom, that writes your profiling data to tmon.out. now you can work with that data in KCachegrind like so:

dprof2calltree -f tmin.out -o cachegrind.out.foo
kcachegrind cachegrind.out.foo

and that's it. that's the whole pipeline. chef's kiss 👑✨

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

kcachegrind(1) — go check on the other half of this duo 💜

💀 AUTHOR 💀

this converter was written by George Schlossnagle <george@omniti.com>. king behavior.

and this manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but like, it may be used by others too. sharing is caring 🫶

🌈 SIGN-OFF 🌈

and that's the page, bestie! dated October 15, 2004, from the General Commands Manual section of DPROF2CALLTREE(1). old school but still slaying, ngl 💖✨🎀