[cfe-dev] PCRE compiles fines and passes the test suite :)

[Török Edwin]

Nuno Lopes wrote:
> no, I don't have a mac (please don't ban me :P). I don't really know any 
> similar tools on linux. (K)cachegrind is nice, but is slow as hell.
>   
On Linux Oprofile [*1] can be  used for system-wide performance
profiling. It uses hardware performance counters, so overhead is minimal.
If you're concerned about latencies, you can try the latencytop [*2]
tool (but it requires a kernel patch to be applied).

[*1] http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/examples/
[*2] http://latencytop.org/

Best regards,
--Edwin