Vertical profiling: Understanding the behavior of object-oriented applications

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 251-269

  Hauswirth, Matthias ^a   Sweeney, Peter F ^b   Diwan, Amer ^a   Hind, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware performance monitors; Perturbation; Software performance monitors; Vertical profiling; Whole system analysis

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE PERFORMANCE MONITORS; PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE MONITORS; VERTICAL PROFILING; WHOLE-SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN AIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RELIABILITY; SERVERS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 17044410906     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1035292.1028998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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