Re: Q on performance with 10000 faces

[Richard Stallman]

         moncontrol() selectively controls profiling within a program.  When the
         program starts, profiling begins.      To stop the collection of 
histogram
         ticks and call counts use moncontrol(0); to resume the collection of 
his-
         togram ticks and call counts use moncontrol(1).  This feature allows 
the
         cost of particular operations to be measured.  Note that an output file
         will be produced on program exit regardless of the state of 
moncontrol().

    I can't seem to find the corresponding doc on my GNU/Linux system,

Does moncontrol exist on GNU/Linux?

The facility sounds useful, but I think we need to make configure
check whether it is available.