Continuous Profiling: Where Have All the Cycles Gone?

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1-14

  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 ^a   Vandevoorde, Mark T ^a   Waldspurger, Carl A ^a   Weihl, William E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

DIGITAL CONTINUOUS PROFILING INFRASTRUCTURE; FINE GRAINED INSTRUCTION LEVEL ANALYSIS; OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL; SAMPLING BASED PROFILING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031540532     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/269005.266637     Document Type: Article

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