Debugging performance failures
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Abstract
An application execution profile has meaning only when it is compared to another profile obtained from a slightly different executing context. Unfortunately, current profilers do not efficiently support performance comparison across multiple profiles. As a consequence, profiling multiple executions is often realized in an ad-hoc fashion, often resulting in missing opportunities for caching.
We propose multidimensional profiling as a way to repeatedly profile a software execution by varying some variables of the execution context. Having explicit execution variation points is key to precisely understanding how a particular feature performance evolves along the version history of the software.
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June 2012
8 pages
ISBN:9781450315074
DOI:10.1145/2307196
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- Alexandre Bergel,
- Damien Cassou,
- Jorge Ressia,
- Serge Stinckwich
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