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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span style="background:
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent">I noticed that tracing the execution time of functions using erlang trace bifs is kind of slow (not unexpectedly).</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent">Looking at the docs I found the following in:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#trace_pattern-2">
http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#trace_pattern-2</a></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="background: transparent">“<font face="Georgia, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Time spent in the function is accumulated in two other counters, seconds and microseconds”</font></font></span></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent">How does this happen in detail? Could someone explain how does trace_pattern with call_time option works internally?</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent">Thank you in advance.</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent">Best regards,</span></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent">Konstantinos Kallas</span></font></font></font></p>
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