question about gprof

Hi,

I have a program and I want to test its execution time. When I run the
program, I can feel it runs about 4 mins, but the gprof only says the
accumlated time is 7.2 secs.

Then I use the command: "date; my program; date" and from the time
difference, I got the time 287 seconds?

I am really confused about these two numbers. Why gprof only accumlated 7.2
secs?

Thanks.

Yan

re: question about gprof

In 'comp.lang.c', "Yan Yang" <yangyan@usc.edu> wrote:
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> I have a program and I want to test its execution time. When I run the
> program, I can feel it runs about 4 mins, but the gprof only says the
> accumlated time is 7.2 secs.[/color]

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