[surrealvortex]

That brings up another distinction - profilers don't distinguish between a method that takes very little time to run but is called very often and another method that is pretty expensive, but is not called very often.

Ultimately, we do care about the total time taken, but the approaches necessary for the two cases above are very different. In many cases, the method that is simply called very often will call for some type of caching solution in the caller, while the more expensive method will require retooling within the method itself.