RE: [GD-Windows] profiler for AMD

[Jon W. <hp...@mi...>]

VTune does not work very well with AMD processors; it degrades to
timer-based sampling (yeah, the 8253 lives! :-)

CodeAnalyst is where it's at for AMD -- it's certainly better than
nothing, but I haven't used it enough to say more (i e sniffed it
once)

Even though VTune is at a high version number, it has its annoying
habits, such as blue-screening Win2k now and then, and being very
slow at parsing symbol files. I believe most of it is written in
Visual Basic (except for the device driver part). If you think VTune
is doing fine, I wouldn't be scared of trying CodeAnalyst.

Cheers,

			/ h+


-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
[mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf Of Tugkan
Calapoglu
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:33 AM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: [GD-Windows] profiler for AMD


We are considering to switch to Athlon XP from Intel chips.We know that XP
is compatible with
Intel instruction set but  are they compatible with intel architecture to
the extent of internal counters?
What I am after is, indeed, whether I could use VTune when I use AMD chip?
If not, is AMD's CodeAnalyst good enough to meet development needs (
currently it has version 1.1 which seems like
they did'nt have a long history of making profilers :) ) ?