VProf Documentation

The README file describes compilation and usage.
The Programmer's Manual describes the internals of VProf.

Usage Examples

A screenshot of vprof showing examination of both profil and PAPI_TOT_CYC data.
An example of a cprof generated html summary using several P6 counters. The program being tuned is the quantum chemistry program MPQC.

Configuration Examples

The configure arguments can be complex, particularly if the VProf runtime is being cross compiled for a parallel machine. In these examples, note that a binutils snapshot is sometimes used instead of the standard release. This is required when using the Compaq compilers on an Alpha platform and possibly other cases where IA32/GCC is not being used.

Simple Linux/IA32: ~/src/vprof/configure --with-qt=/usr/lib/qt2
Using perfctr: ~/src/vprof/configure --with-perfctr=/usr/src/linux-2.4.17-perfctr2.3.4
Tools on CPlant (taylor): ~/src/vprof/configure --disable-runtime --with-cxx=/usr/bin/cxx --with-cc=/usr/bin/ccc --with-include=-I/home/cljanss/binutils-020124/include --with-ldflags=-L/home/cljanss/binutils-020124/lib
Runtime on CPlant (taylor): ~/src/vprof/configure --disable-tools --with-sizeof-ull=8 --with-sizeof-ul=8 --with-sizeof-ui=4 --with-sizeof-us=2 --with-sizeof-vp=8 --with-cxx=/usr/local/cplant/ross/current/bin/c++ --with-cc=/usr/local/cplant/ross/current/bin/cc --with-f77=/usr/local/cplant/ross/current/bin/f77 --with-libs="-lpmpi -lmpi"
Tools on CPlant (alc2): /home/cljanss/src/vprof/configure --with-cc=ccc --with-cxx=cxx --with-f77=fort --with-ldflags=-L/home/cljanss/binutils-020124/lib --with-include=-I/home/cljanss/binutils-020124/include
Runtime on CPlant (alc2): ~/src/vprof/configure --disable-tools --with-cc=ccc --with-cxx=cxx --with-f77=fort --with-ldflags=-L/usr/local/delmar/lib --with-include=-I/usr/local/delmar/include --with-libs=-lgm