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From: <sv...@va...> - 2007-05-24 18:04:44
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Author: weidendo Date: 2007-05-24 19:04:42 +0100 (Thu, 24 May 2007) New Revision: 6746 Log: Callgrind format: Note about event names in the example The added paragraph was triggered by a question on the mailing list. Modified: trunk/callgrind/docs/cl-format.xml Modified: trunk/callgrind/docs/cl-format.xml =================================================================== --- trunk/callgrind/docs/cl-format.xml 2007-05-23 21:58:33 UTC (rev 6745) +++ trunk/callgrind/docs/cl-format.xml 2007-05-24 18:04:42 UTC (rev 6746) @@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ <sect2 id="cl-format.overview.example1" xreflabel="Simple Example"> <title>Simple Example</title> +<para>The event names in the following example are quite arbitrary, and are not +related to event names used by Callgrind. Especially, cycle counts matching +real processors probably will never be generated by any Valgrind tools, as these +are bound to simulations of simple machine models for acceptable slowdown. +However, any profiling tool could use the format described in this chapter.</para> + <para> <screen>events: Cycles Instructions Flops fl=file.f @@ -548,4 +554,4 @@ </sect1> -</chapter> \ No newline at end of file +</chapter> |