Continuous Profiling: Where Have All the Cycles Gone?

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 357-390

  Anderson, Jennifer M ^a   Berc, Lance M ^a   Dean, Jeffrey ^a   Ghemawat, Sanjay ^a   Henzinger, Monika R ^a   Leung, Shun Tak A ^a   Sites, Richard L ^b   Vandevoorde, Mark T ^a   Waldspurger, Carl A ^a   Weihl, William E ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

C.4 Computer Systems Organization : Performance of Systems; D.2.2 Software Engineering : Tools and Techniques profiling tools; D.2.6 Programming Languages : Programming Environments performance monitoring; D.4 Operating Systems : General

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONTINUOUS PROFILING; PERFORMANCE MONITORING HARDWARE; PROGRAM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031270220     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/265924.265925     Document Type: Article

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