Program Issues for Performance Analysis

Collecting performance data on a program that has standard library calls and does not create threads or processes is straightforward. In other circumstances there are some extra issues to consider when you collect performance data on a program. These issues are outlined in the following topics:

Programs That Install Signal Handlers
Programs That Use Hardware Counters
Programs That Create Descendant Processes
MPI Programs
Multithreaded and OpenMP Programs
Programs That Execute Dynamically Compiled Functions
Java Programs

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