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Cyberwizzard
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 Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:17 am Post subject: Why do I need oprofile? |
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As in the topic: why do I need oprofile or profiling support in general? I've been turning it off in my kernel every time but why is it enabled anyway? What does profiling do?
All I know it collects some info about calls in the cpu and stuff.... great.... what do I do with it? |
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Crenshaw
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if you like to optimize (mainly) number crunching applications oprofile is one of the tools for you...  |
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Cyberwizzard
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But this would be only when I'm developing applications or operating system parts right?
In other words: its not the tool for me as I would probably use java in a RL case which was not supported (I think I read that somewhere). |
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