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Memory part 7: Memory performance tools

Memory part 7: Memory performance tools

Posted Nov 8, 2007 20:41 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: Memory part 7: Memory performance tools by njs
Parent article: Memory part 7: Memory performance tools

Couldn't agree more. For profiling non-trivial programs (web browsers etc), GUI like Kcachgrind is a necessity. It helps also in comparing callgraphs from different use-cases. You want to understand bottlenecks in different use-cases and whether those bottlenecks are caused by same things. (optimizations are often compromises and you don't want to make a compromise you need to fix/revert later.)


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