The previously described sequence start, stop, report does nothing.
Ref http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-10/msg00010.html
* Lisp changes in Emacs 24.3
** New sampling-based Elisp profiler.
-Try M-x profiler-start ... M-x profiler-stop; and then M-x profiler-report.
-The sampling rate can be based on CPU time (only supported on some
-systems), or based on memory allocations.
+Try M-x profiler-start, do some work, and then call M-x profiler-report.
+When finished, use M-x profiler-stop. The sampling rate can be based on
+CPU time (only supported on some systems) or memory allocations.
+++
** CL-style generalized variables are now in core Elisp.