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Profiling tools typically produce a large amount of data. The wish to easily browse down and up the call graph, together with fast switching of the sorting mode of functions and display of different event types, motivates a GUI application to accomplish this task.

TDECachegrind is an visualization for profile data fulfilling these wishes. Despite being programmed first with browsing the data from Cachegrind and Calltree in mind, there are converters available to be able to display profile data produced by other tools. In the appendix, a description of the Cachegrind/Callgrind file format is given.

Besides a list of functions sorted according exclusive or inclusive cost metrics, and optionally grouped by source file, shared library or C++ class, TDECachegrind features various visualization views for a selected function, namely

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