Performance Optimization
Profiling Software
The Visual Profiler
provides software to collect statistical program counter sampling and to view the results on Linux machines.
Performance Counters
Mikael Pettersson's performance counter software for use with Linux 2.4-ac kernels and P6 processors can be found at
http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/
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There is an project underway to develop a standard, cross architecture performance counter API. Look at
http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projects/papi/
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Last updated: 2001-10-22 11:00