Profiling of code is done for code optimization. In GAWK, we can do profiling by supplying a profile option to GAWK while running the GAWK program. On execution of the GAWK program with that option, it creates a file with the name awkprof.out. Since GAWK is performing profiling of the code, the program execution is up to 45% slower than the speed at which GAWK normally executes.
Let's understand profiling by looking at some examples. In the following example, we create a program that has four functions; two arithmetic functions, one function prints an array, and one function calls all of them. Our program also contains two BEGIN and two END statements. First, the BEGIN and END statement and then it contains a pattern action rule, ...
