24.3.2 Description of cumulative data

The Cumulative tab shows aggregated information about each function that includes the following information:

• The number of times each function was found on the stack by the profiler, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of the total number of scans of the stack.
• The number of times each function was found on the top of the stack, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of the total number of scans of the stack.

With a suitable profiler setup it also shows:

• The number of times each function being profiled was called.

Note: by default the Profiler does not count function calls, because this can distort results significantly in SMP LispWorks. Therefore the Call# column shows 0 for each function. To make the Profiler count calls, evaluate this:

(set-up-profiler :call-counter t)

LispWorks IDE User Guide (Unix version) - 25 Nov 2011