negative values in profile output

[Michael Hudson]

"Matthew M. Boedicker" <mboedick at mboedick.org> writes:

> When using the profile module to profile a long-running program,
> I am getting some negative values:
> 
> 6753628 -4036.027   -0.001 -4036.027   -0.001 gobject_sql.py:36(<lambda>)
> 
> Am I correct to assume these don't have special meaning and are the
> result of something wrapping?

They may be a result of mis-calibration of the profiler -- see the
docs.

Last time i used the profiler, I more-or-less ignored the values
output and just assumed I was doing the right thing when they got
smaller...

Cheers,
M.

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