KCACHEGRIND(1)

📦 version 26.08.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 KCACHEGRIND — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for kcachegrind(1) from the General Commands Manual. yes it's a real manpage, yes it's in section 1, and yes we are going to get through it together. grab a strawberry 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

kcachegrind — a visualisation tool for valgrind profiling output 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

kcachegrind [ generic-options ] [ -r exec ] [ trace-file ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. the square brackets are doing so much heavy lifting here 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so. KCachegrind is a visualisation tool for the profiling data generated by calltree, which is a profiling skin for valgrind. and the way that works? you can profile applications using calltree without being recompiled, and shared libraries and plugin architectures are supported. no cap. literally no recompiling. we love a low-effort high-reward situation 🫶

for visualising the output from other profiling tools, several converters are available. on Debian systems these can be found in the kcachegrind-converters package. very demure, very mindful, very "check your package manager" ✨

this application is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. main character energy fr fr 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

below are the kcachegrind-specific options, aka the special little guys. for a full summary of options, run kcachegrind --help. go on, run it, i'll wait 💜

  • -r exec — run the program exec under cachegrind. yes, it just launches it for you, iconic behaviour honestly 🔥
  • trace-file — visualise data from the given trace. you hand it a trace, it makes it pretty. that's the deal 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Centre. you can also enter the URL help:/kcachegrind/ directly into konqueror, or you can run this from the command-line:

khelpcenter help:/kcachegrind/

if the KDE Help Centre is not installed, then you can install the package kdesdk-doc-html and read this documentation in HTML format from /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcachegrind/. it's giving "there's always another way in" and honestly? obsessed 😭

💜 AUTHOR 💜

KCachegrind was written by Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>. shoutout to the icon who built this 🫶

this manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). generous king behaviour honestly 💅

reminder bestie: everything above is the actual documented behaviour. i added sparkle, not facts. if it's not in here, i didn't invent it, periodt ✨

and that's the whole page!! this one is dated March 25, 2005, and it lives in the General Commands Manual — so if you ever need to summon it again, it's kcachegrind(1), section 1, exactly where you left it 🎀 bye bestie, go profile something 💖

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