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Date:      Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:32:20 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac mdoc.local src/lib Makefile         src/lib/libpmc Makefile libpmc.c pmc.3 pmc.h Makefile hwpmc.ms         src/share/examples/hwpmc README src/share/man/man4 Makefile ...
Message-ID:  <20050420113220.bkyb57rds08cwssk@netchild.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050419181128.GA27443@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> I assume this is like a portable version of the measurement backend in
>> Intels VTune... at least I assume VTune does something like this
>> itself.
>
> Not quite - it isn't purely an Intel thing; nor is accessing event

That's the reason why I wrote "portable". :-)

> counters all VTune does.

Yes, but the other things VTune does (e.g. code analysis, knowledge about
internals of the CPU to visualize pipeline behavior, knowledge about code
structure pitfalls to optimize for more vectorization) doesn't belong into a
performance monitoring API/implementation.

Bye,
Alexander.

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