Profile Comparison Eligibility Criteria - Profile Comparison Eligibility Criteria - 57368

To ensure accurate and meaningful profile comparisons, the following conditions must be met:

• Same Events: The profiles being compared should have collected the same events. This ensures that the comparison is performed on relevant and comparable data.
• Same Profile Duration (if specified): If the duration (-d) option is specified, the profiles being compared should have the same duration. This ensures consistency in the time span covered by the profiles.
• Not a System Wide Profile: System-wide profiles cannot be compared directly. Therefore, only individual process or thread-level profiles are eligible for comparison.
• Same Profile Data Limit (if used): If the --limit-size or --limit-data option is used during profiling, the profiles being compared should have the same data limit set. This ensures consistency in the size of profile data collected.
• Same Inline Function Profiling (--inline): If the --inline option is used to profile inline functions, the profiles being compared should have used the same inline function profiling setting. This ensures consistent handling of inline functions during the comparison.