Profiling under UNIX by Patching

Citation

• M. Bishop, “Profiling under UNIX by Patching,” Software—Practice and Experience 17(10) pp. 729–740 (Oct. 1987). DOI: 10.1002/spe.4380171006.

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• DOI: 10.1002/spe.4380171006
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Abstract

Profiling under UNIX is done by inserting counters into programs either before compiling, during compiling, or during assembly. A fourth type of profiling involves monitoring the execution of a program, and gathering relevant statistics during the run. This paper looks at this method and an implementation of it, and discusses its advantages and disadvantages.

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©1987 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.. The definitive version was published in Software—Practice and Experience 17(10), Oct. 1987 and is available at 10.1002/spe.4380171006.