On Friday 19 August 2011, Asra Baig wrote:
> What is the unit of measurement of absolute cost values? Is it microsecs?

The unit depends on the event type selected to be shown by KCachegrind.
E.g. Callgrind has a cache simulator, so event types are for example
"instructions executed" or "cache misses triggered".

> Also, is the cost the average cost of the count times that operation is 
> called or is it the total time for all the X number of times that operation 
> was called?

It is always the total.

Josef
  
> For example if a call took 300 units of time and is called 3 times, does it 
> mean that it took an average of 100 unit of time to execute or 300 unit of 
> time?
>  
> Regards,
> Asra
>  



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