MySQL Forums :: Performance :: Query profile: sending data

After reading the source code, I think I have the answer:

mysql> show profile for query 1;
+--------------------+------------+
| Status | Duration |
+--------------------+------------+
| (initialization) | 0.00006300 |
| Opening tables | 0.00001400 |
| System lock | 0.00000600 |
| Table lock | 0.00001000 |
| init | 0.00002200 |
| optimizing | 0.00001100 |
| statistics | 0.00009300 |
| preparing | 0.00001700 |
| executing | 0.00000700 |
| Sending data | 0.00016800 |
| end | 0.00000700 |
| query end | 0.00000500 |
| freeing items | 0.00001200 |
| closing tables | 0.00000800 |
| logging slow query | 0.00000400 |
+--------------------+------------+

Each time means the time elapsed between the previous event and the new event. So, the line:
| Sending data | 0.00016800 |
means that 0.00016800 seconds elapsed between "executing" and "Sending data". It is, it takes 0.00016800 seconds to execute the query.