# translation.profopt

- name: profopt
- description: Specify profile based optimization script
- command-line: –profopt
- option type: string option

Use GCCs profile-guided optimizations. This option specifies the the arguments with which to call pypy-c (and in general the translated RPython program) to gather profile data. Example for pypy-c: “-c ‘from richards import main;main(); from test import pystone; pystone.main()’”