When you run Profiler, the following banner is displayed in the report:
* Micro Focus COBOL Profiler * name-1 . . . * name-n
where name is one of the files in your project or one of the files listed in filenames, if you are running Profiler from the command line.
The Profiler output gives the total execution time (in milliseconds) for the program run and then breaks this down for each section and paragraph in the program:
| Output | Description |
|---|---|
| %time | Total percentage of execution time spent in the named section or paragraph |
| time | Total time (in milliseconds) spent in the named section or paragraph |
| entries | Number of times the named section or paragraph was entered |
| micros/entry | Average time (in milliseconds) per entry to the section or paragraph |
| paragraph | Section or paragraph to which performance statistics apply. The initial (unnamed) paragraph listed is the initialization code executed before the user part of the program is entered. |
The product of the micros/entry and the number of entries should equal the total time spent in the section or paragraph; however, because all three values are truncated, there can be a slight discrepancy.