Re: [Valgrind-developers] vgPlain_search_transtab

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:

> I was quite confident with my version of valgrind. But when I run another big
> program I often see that more than 30% of runtime goes to
> vgPlain_search_transtab.
>
> Is there a document that describes the purpose and machinery behind this
> function?

Not really, although the academic publications on valgrind.org (eg. the 2007 
PLDI paper) has a little.  The translation table is where the instrumented 
blocks of code are held.  That function is called when the fast cache 
lookups fail.

Nick