# prof-use-sampling

Lets you use data files produced by hardware profiling to produce an optimized executable. This is a deprecated option that may be removed in a future release. This feature is only available for ifort.

## Syntax

Linux: | -prof-use-sampling=list

macOS: | None

Windows: | None

## Arguments

list | Is a list of one or more data files. If you specify more than one data file, they must be separated by colons.

## Default

OFF | Data files produced by hardware profiling will not be used to produce an optimized executable.

## Description

This option lets you use data files produced by hardware profiling to produce an optimized executable.

This is a deprecated option that may be removed in a future release. There is no replacement option.

The data files are named and produced by using Intel® VTune™.

The executable should have been produced using the following options:

        -prof-gen-sampling -g

## IDE Equivalent

None

## Alternate Options

None

Parent topic: Profile Guided Optimization Options

## See Also

prof-gen-sampling compiler option
Profile an Application with Instrumentation