Here is an example of a generated profile report:

$ silhouette silhouette.out Number of threads: 1 Profiling based on method call. Cost of profiler: 0.45 seconds.

Flat profile (0.76 total seconds):

 %      total     self              self     total
time   seconds   seconds    calls  ms/call  ms/call  name
19.74     0.15     0.15     1228     0.12     0.28 Silhouette::DefaultProfiler#process_return
10.53     0.23     0.08        1    80.00   640.00 Silhouette::BinaryEmitter#parse
 6.58     0.28     0.05     6151     0.01     0.01 Array#[]
 5.26     0.32     0.04     1229     0.03     0.07 Silhouette::DefaultProfiler#process_call
 5.26     0.36     0.04     4966     0.01     0.01 IO#read
 5.26     0.40     0.04     3842     0.01     0.01 Object#===
 3.95     0.43     0.03     4474     0.01     0.01 Hash#[]
 ...

Call Tree Profile: index calls ms/ self total

           call     sec      sec
1228/1        -        -        -    Silhouette::BinaryEmitter#parse [243]

256

1228 0.12 0.15 0.34 Silhouette::DefaultProfiler#process_return

2     0.01     0.00     0.02    Array#[] [4]
2     0.01     0.00     0.02    Hash#[] [162]
1     0.05     0.00     0.06    Silhouette::ProfileNode#add_cost [265]
1     0.02     0.00     0.02    Silhouette::ProfileNode#inc_call! [263]
2     0.01     0.00     0.02    Array#last [260]
1     0.01     0.00     0.02    Hash#[]= [37]

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…

parent called/called child  -    -        -    Parent method name [parent_id]
             ...

method_id

calls 0.03 0.04 0.08 Method name

called child     0.02     0.00     0.02    Child method name [child_id]
         ...

Explanation of Call Tree Profile:

For each method profiled, there is an entry that describes the method, it’s parents and it’s direct children. Above we’ve shown a real world output from the profiler and and explanation of each field.

First are listed all the parent methods that called the current method. The only stat available for the parent is the number of times the parent was called and the number of times the parent called the current method.

Next listed is the current method.

Finally, all the methods directly called by the current method are listed. The calls column is only the number of times the current method called the child, not the total number of calls the child received.