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As with any binary in Linux, you can use valgrind / callgrind to collect the information during run time. A visualizer for the results is e.g. http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/Documentation.html.

You can install the package in Ubuntu with

sudo apt-get install valgrind kcachegrind

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