Re: [gnugo-devel] oprofile

[Evan Daniel]

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Gunnar Farneback wrote:
| Arend wrote:
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|>The more important benefit, available on Pentium 4 and later or roughly
|>equivalent Athlon processors, is that it can use the processor's
|>performance counters and, e.g., generate a listing of L2 cache misses
|>per source code line.
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| Presumably the cachegrind tool in valgrind can also do similar things.
| I have never tested it though and do not know how it compares.

I believe cachegrind is very slow, but less intrusive and potentially
more detailed.  I've looked at it, but never really put it to use.

Evan
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