negative values in profile output

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Matthew M. Boedicker:
> 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?

Looks like a bug to me.

I suppose it could be wrapping, if the Python involved doesn't
promote int to long on overflow.  What version are you running?

I wonder also whether it might be a problem in the bias
calculations inside the profiler.

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Steven Taschuk                           staschuk at telusplanet.net
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