[gclist] Cache performance tools

[John Levon]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:33:05PM -0500, Manoj Plakal wrote:

> >   Linux: cachegrind (in valgrind), oprofile (, vtune)
> >   Tru64: atom tools; prof, uprofile, hiprof, pixie
> 
> 	http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/dcpi/
> 
> 	There's DCPI for Alpha/Tru64 that collects
> 	low-level performance info (for the entire
> 	system incuding the OS and shared libraries) 
> 	and also provides tools for correlating all
> 	this info with application code. So you
> 	can quickly zoom into the function in an app which
> 	is causing a bunch of cache misses and
> 	see source/assembly listings annotated with
> 	info from the hardware counters. Cool stuff.

OProfile is heavily influenced by DCPI's design and has much the same
feature set.

regards
john

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