Code Profiling on AMD Systems?

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:Look before you leap

[DrSkwid]

I know the facts mate,.

Did you notice the GNU/Linux part ?

August 1991
``Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. "

If it wasn't for GCC and the GNU GPL, chances are there would be no Linux today, just a Minix clone.

Linux set the industry back 20 years, but hey, we'll cope.