dtrace & dprofile
I have not had a lot of time lately to update my blog !
We've just
added compiler Performance to our test matrix. Compilers
have always been tested but we're
integrating Studio and Solaris
performance testing so each development team can better understand the
effect of their work on the other ( and in turn on the customer )
I have been talking to a lot of ISV ( independent software vendors )
bringing their code and workload into our performance test metrix. They
often comment on the pain that goes with upgrading compiler releases.
Our goal is to reduce this real pain and provide some positive
incentive
in terms of increased performance.
One of the numerous killer Sun Compiler Studio 11 features is called
dProfile which uses cool some features of the SPARC platform and
dtrace. Have you
seen those T1000 & T2000 systems yet ?
So do we shout about this
from the rafters ? Never !
If you do a search for dprofile on www.sun.com you'll only get 3 hits !
and none would get you interested enough to search more.
So if you love dtrace then you'll love this too. Checkout the
developers own blogs,
which is rather gentle in its claims ( Nick you
never struck me as shy :)
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/nk?anchor=getting_ready_for_cmt
PS checkout the latest dtrace -z option in the latest Solaris Express.
Posted at
12:00PM Dec 12, 2005
by damienf in Solaris |