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Dueling performance monitors

Dueling performance monitors

Posted Dec 10, 2008 21:02 UTC (Wed) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)
In reply to: Dueling performance monitors by deater
Parent article: Dueling performance monitors

As fine grain as every subroutine call and return. Some routines do encounter issues with variance due to in-flight instructions and overhead due to shortness. Usually the issues are visible and specific, and can be handled. Sometimes the profile is the proof that inlining is appropriate. A subroutine whose execution is as short as a few dozen ticks can be measured meaningfully using an automated tool based on perfctr.


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