On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:06:53 -0600 "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@HiWAAY.net> wrote:
Intel's Linux compilers have some of the profiling you are asking for, I *think*. I haven't used that facility firsthand, but they describe it on their website & it sounds like what you are asking for. I have used (&
like) the rest of the Intel compiler suite, under SuSE 8.2. They are normally commercial, but are available as unsupported, free downloads as well .... I can check this. I have been benchmarking the Intel compiler suite vs. the GCC suite on the Itanium and I am seeing a very unofficial 40% improvement using the Intel suite over GCC. I copied myself on this and I'll try to answer this on Monday. They certainly have more sophisticated profiling. Another member of my team is doing some work on profiling.
However, there are some tools that use counters on chips and in the OS to provide additional information. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9