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Title:DEC Ada
Notice:Ada is no longer a trademark of the US Government
Moderator:KMOOSE::CMCCUTCHEON
Created:Mon Jan 27 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3874
Total number of notes:16668

3861.0. "Performance Analysis Tools?" by ADOV01::MANUEL (Over the Horizon....) Fri Apr 11 1997 02:59

    Can anyone recommend a software performance analysis tool with similar
    functionality to DECset PCA for Digital Unix, my customer is not happy
    with the Fuse Profiler, target is a 1,000,000 line Ada application.
    
    Thanks,
    Steve.
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3861.1gprof maybeKMOOSE::CMCCUTCHEONCharlie McCutcheonFri Apr 11 1997 10:1816
>    Can anyone recommend a software performance analysis tool with similar
>    functionality to DECset PCA for Digital Unix, my customer is not happy
>    with the Fuse Profiler, target is a 1,000,000 line Ada application.

I think there are several profilers, but I haven't done a study on how
useful they are.  Ada uses DECThreads to implement Ada tasking, and
I believe that at least one profiler has issues with this (see various
man pages).

DEC Ada V3.3 supports gprof (earlier versions didn't), in case that helps
your user.

In general, the UNIX tools do not have much Ada-specific support.
I don't see this improving.

Charlie