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Summary of Changes
We use the term "profiling" incorrectly in the SDK to mean "benchmarking." E.g. profiling vs benchmarking. It would be very useful to have proper profiling, in addition to benchmarks.
This PR simply renames uses of profile to benchmark (this was actually done a few months ago) to get us ready for someday having real profiling tools.
Actual profiling would be very useful for identifying performance bottlenecks and working toward improving performance in an informed way. Currently, this PR just adds a
make profileMakefile target that echos some helpful information on usingraco profile, but it would be ideal to add real profiling features in the SDK down the line, possibly using the feature-specific profiling library (see also the accompanying paper: Feature-Specific Profiling)Public Domain Dedication
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