I'm going to prepare documentation for iprof for a couple of days Nikolay A. Sidelnikov, SSG/MRTD/DRL/DRL JIT software engineer, Intel Corporation, Novosibirsk e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +7 383 3340950 ext. 2173
>-----Original Message----- >From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:29 PM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [drlvm][iprof] Using Profiling Utility ("iprof") > >Is this tuff documented? Wanna throw it in the wiki or a patch for the >site? > >Egor Pasko wrote: >> On the 0x214 day of Apache Harmony Mikhail Fursov wrote: >>> + Some usage hints: >>> 1. You can get any stylesheet editor (like Excel), open iprof data and build >>> graphs from the colums - and you will have very useful pictures. >> >> gnuplot :) >> >>> 2. The disadvantage of iprof is that it counts blocks, insts and helpers >>> calls and does not count time spent in helpers and blocks. You still need >>> VTune to get this info. >> >> 1 more disadvantage: counters are not synchronized resulting in >> somewhat inaccurate data for multithreaded apps >>