profiling newb

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all,

i am just getting my feet wet w/ profiling.
its nice to see i can invoke a page from the browser then
see an analysis in kcachegrind using xdebug to generate the data.
however, im curious about 'finding the weak spots in an application'.
say for instance i arrive at a new location as a consultant or w/e;
point is assume a totally foreign codebase that needs to be
optimized.  theoretically 'profiling' would be a way to analyze the
application and determine where the slow points are, which methods
are getting called repeatedly and so forth. then those areas could be
analyzed for potential gains.
it seems to me though, that since generating a series of cache files
is a manual process and the analysis a manual process it would take
a long time just to profile an application.  so someone familiar with
said application could point out the slow spots much more quickly
than a person using a profiling tool.
is there a tool that can analyze a large number of cache files and give
some sort of comprehensive report?  it seems very natural to have cache
files get generated in a pre-production site for analysis.  if they could be
sent through something that generated a comprehensive report that would
really reduce profiling time rather than having to look through them one at
a time.
or am i missing something because im new to profiling ?

thanks,

-nathan

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