NYTPROFMERGE(1)

💖 NYTPROFMERGE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the nytprofmerge page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. yes it's a real section, yes it's iconic, and yes we're gonna get through this together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

nytprofmerge — reads multiple NYTProf profiles and outputs a merged one

like. that's the whole thing. it takes a bunch of profiles, it smushes them into one. slay.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

$ nytprofmerge --out=nytprof-merged.out nytprof.out.*

$ nytprofmerge nytprof.out.*

two ways to run it, pick your fighter 🌸 — first one you name the output file yourself, second one you just let it do its thing.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕: nytprofmerge reads a whole pile of profile data files that were generated by Devel::NYTProf, and then it writes out a brand new profile data file that has all the data from the originals merged together. it's giving "combine our powers" 💫

⚠️ okay huge heads up, no cap: nytprofmerge is likely to produce garbage if the input profiles aren't all profiles of exactly the same software. like, exactly. same software. not "similar", not "same repo different branch", not "vibes are close enough". exactly. 🙈

also — and this is important — nytprofmerge is new and somewhat experimental. it's baby. it's still figuring itself out 🧚

so if it produces unexpected results, please don't just suffer in silence, bestie 😭 — make a small test case that demonstrates the problem, and let the devs know at <http://groups.google.com/group/develnytprof-dev> — thanks!

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and that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨

this one's from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it's NYTPROFMERGE(1) — so go forth and merge responsibly, mwah 🎀💖