Re: [GD-Windows] profiler for AMD

[Tugkan C. <tu...@in...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eero Pajarre" <epa...@ko...>
To: "Tugkan Calapoglu" <tu...@in...>
Cc: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] profiler for AMD


> Tugkan Calapoglu wrote:
>
>  > 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 :) ) ?
>  >
>
> Considering how often Vtune (I have only tested it up to
> version 4.5) decides that all my CPU is used by "other32",
> I have been rather happy with AMD codeAnalyst.
>
> You can also use VTune with Athlon, except for the EBS based sampling.
>
>
>
> Eero


That 'other32' and 'library' is really a problem for me ( Some bars say they
are library.There is no clue about
which library they are ) I am not sure whether it is problem of VTune or
compiler. I think compiler could not succeed to
insert debug info or VTune has problems in interpreting it. I worked around
it by selecting "line numbers only" option.
My question to Intel's support service remained unanswered ( Well they gave
an answer which is totally useless. )
But if CodeAnalyst does a better job than VTune in this subject, this is a
real breakthrough  :).