On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:45:18 -0500 (CDT) 
 Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:

 > Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
 >   %   cumulative   self              self     total
 >  time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name
 >  98.63    737.80   737.80                             start

Err, if I understand it right, what you're seeing is that
"98.63% of execution time was spent in start or children of start."

So, shouldn't you need to tell gprof to ignore start?

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