TheUNIXSystem: Cheap Dynamic Instruction Counting
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- 1 October 1984
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- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal
- Vol. 63 (8) , 1815-1826
Abstract
There are two ways to profile the behavior of a program: timing and counting. Timing is traditional in UNIX operating systems. This paper describes an easy implementation of count profiling, and gives several examples and applications. It has...Keywords
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