>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But why would you need a subsequent access to the same data? The profiler
> report is in the buffer, and you can review it whenever you want. The buffer
> has the time of the report creation as part of its name, so the next report
> will not destroy the buffer. You can also save the report to a file (there's
> a separate command to do that). By contrast,producing a report again from
> the same data will simply produce an identical report.

> I guess I don't see a use case where the user would need to produce the same
> report twice. I never needed that myself, FWIW.

I think the OP wants to:

  1. Start a profile
  2. View the "results in progress"
  3. Allow it to continue execution
  4. View the "results at the end"

It's step #2 that's missing. If we can only view the results in progress by
taking away the option for #4, this is less optimal.

This is something that other profilers do let you do; I use Instruments on the
Mac to view "statistics as they happen" all the time, to spot trends, for
example.

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