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<h2 class="chapter">9 Details of Profiling</h2>
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Implementation.html#Implementation">Implementation</a>: How a program collects profiling information
<li><a accesskey="2" href="File-Format.html#File-Format">File Format</a>: Format of <span class="samp">gmon.out</span> files
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