Code Profiling on AMD Systems?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 19, 2006 @07:45AM from the search-for-slow-function-calls dept.

streak writes "After looking around at some profilers for AMD chips (I'm currently developing on Windows .NET so oprofile, dtrace, and other open source profilers are out) like AMD's CodeAnalyst and Microsoft's .NET Profiler, I've seen nothing that even comes close to being useful for function timing, call graphs, and the like. I'm not looking for micro-optimization (i.e. assembly tweaking - I am after all in .NET), but more for macro-optimization (identifying slow functions, reducing number of repeated calls to functions, etc). What I'm comparing all these tools to is VTune (which is Intel only). What do people use for profiling on AMD systems on Windows? Do you develop on an Intel box, do macro-optimization with VTune, and then just run that code on the AMD system?"

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Re:Use VTune by Spy+Hunter · 2006-02-19 09:41 · Score: 2, Interesting

I'm sure it has very little to do with VTune not working on AMD and everything to do with Intel's business types telling the engineers "don't support AMD". Did you know that recently Intel and Skype "collaborated" to cripple Skype's conference call features when running on a non-Intel chip? They don't need a good technical reason; this is business.

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