On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:02:49 -0500 Will Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -SNIP- > OProfile has been used to find performance problems in Red Hat applications: > > http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/wwc2003/ > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-08/msg00004.html > > Fixing the performance problems identified by OProfile yielded about 15% > reduction in the build time for mozilla on ia64 (wwc2003 paper). In the > second URL OProfile identified a significant performance problem in the > exception handling library used by gcj and yielded a much faster version > of the Eclipse IDE. > > -Will > > > > -- Thank you, first I've heard of OProfile and the Intel price tag is nuts. OProfile sounds like a real winner according to the Eclipse thread.
