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> References: <200504190401.j3J41QKh055169@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050419121018.nq4ktq77r4goos08@netchild.homeip.net> <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. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 "We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation." -- Lily Tomlin
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