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Performance Tools
Various Issues.
Accuracy.
Sampling techniques yield less accurate results than counters or timers (clock accuracies!).
Simplicity.
Automatic data collection (little or no programmer intervention).
Flexibility.
Extension to collect additional data or provide different views.
Intrusiveness.
Data collection may affect program behavior.
Abstraction.
Examination of data at a level of abstraction appropriate for programming model.
Author:
Wolfgang Schreiner
Last modification: November 15, 1996