> I usually find non flat profiling (to find out what called the problem > code) is more trouble than it's worth. The combination of callgrind/kcachegrind handles this very nicely; see http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/. HTH, Jens. -- mailto:jjk@xxxxxxx phone:+49-7031-4357-122 http://www.bawue.de/~jjk/ fax:+49-7031-4357-483 http://del.icio.us/jjk As the air to a bird, or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. [Blake]