[George Peter Staplin]: Mar 2, 2004 - I've been curious about where Tcl spends most of its time during the evaluation/execution of scripts, so I learned how to use gprof to profile the tcl core.

The steps are:
   1. get tcl from cvs here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/
   2. get the tclbench module from cvs here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib
   3. mkdir tcl_bld
   4. export CC="gcc -pg" 
   5. ../tcl/unix/configure --prefix=/tmp --disable-shared
   6. make
   7. env SCRIPT="../tclbench/runbench.tcl -verbose -notk -iterations 500" make shell 
   8. gprof tclsh gmon.out | less