Re: [PerfSuite-users] Floating Point Instructions

[Rick K. <rk...@nc...>]

Abel -

> What's the difference between a floating point instruction and a 
> floating point operation? I have papi installed with perfsuite on top 
> of it. When I run a program I get a large number for floating point 
> operations but zero for floating point instructions. First if all I 
> don't know the difference and second of all why am getting zero for 
> floating point instructions? Here is the output to psrun.
>
>

I think the following PAPI FAQ may help address this question:

http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/faq/index.html#213

Rick