[cfe-dev] Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling

[Mayuresh Kathe via cfe-dev]

Hi Jakub, thanks for taking the effort to skim through the paper.
I could describe it, but consider it better to hear the whole thing from 
the horse's mouth.
Check out the video at; https://youtu.be/r-TLSBdHe1A

~Mayuresh

On 2019-12-12 08:47 AM, Jakub (Kuba) Kuderski wrote:
> Hi Mayuresh,
> 
> I skimmed the paper and it seems interesting. I have one high-level
> question: how relevant is this technique to conventional
> single-threaded compilers? There's some mention of being able to
> account for system operations (e.g., IO), but It's not clear to me if
> the tool is of any use for profiling LLVM-based compilers.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jakub
> 
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:29 PM Mayuresh Kathe via cfe-dev
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
>> Just in-case you didn't know about this, check out this new
>> profiling
>> technique and it's working implementation at;
>> https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz/
>> 
>> Also a paper describing the work is available at;
>> 
> https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/10/14/coz-finding-code-that-counts-with-causal-profling/
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> Jakub Kuderski