A HierarchicalProfilerNode stores the measured times for a method or a measured code section. It has a Name and is usually called like the method that is profiled. It links to a Parent node, which is the method or code section from which the code was called. It has Children which represent profiled methods or code sections that are called by the code of this node.

Recursive calls: If this node is used to measure a recursive method, following conventions apply: Count counts all calls including recursive calls. Minimum, Average and Maximum ignore recursions and measure the time of the one call including recursions. That means, if the method "Foo" is called once, and it calls itself recursively, this counts as one call for the computation of Minimum/Average/Maximum.

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