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 ===== Dynamic Memory Allocation ===== ===== Dynamic Memory Allocation =====
  
-The biggest problems with dynamic memory management are:+Typical problems with dynamic memory management are:
   - leaks and   - leaks and
   - corruption.   - corruption.
-While the later is rather tricky to analyse, for memleaks there is+While the latter is rather tricky to analyse, for memleaks there is
 ''valgrind''. Invocation as follows: ''valgrind''. Invocation as follows:
 <code> <code>
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 ===== Performance ===== ===== Performance =====
  
-When programming, the code complexity (O-notation) is the main factor +When programming, code complexity (O-notation) is the main factor identifying 
-identifying CPU-intense algorithms. Reducing the code'complexity often +CPU-intense algorithms. Reducing code complexity often doesn't suffice, though. 
-doesn't suffice, though. E.g. IO-intense operations often lead to delays at +E.g. IO-intense operations often lead to delays at run-time which isn't covered 
-run-time which isn't covered by the O-notation, at all. This means that aside +by O-notation, at all. This means that aside of complexity analysis, there 
-of complexity analysis, there always should be run-time code execution time +always should be run-time code execution time measurement. 
-measurement. And this is where ''gprof'' comes into action:+ 
 +==== GProf ==== 
 + 
 +''gprof'' is a profiler integrated into gcc. Enabled at compile-time, the 
 +program collects profiling data for later analysis using ''gprof'' tool: 
 <code> <code>
 $ gcc -pg -g test.c $ gcc -pg -g test.c
 $ ./a.out $ ./a.out
 $ gprof a.out gmon.out $ gprof a.out gmon.out
 +</code>
 +
 +==== Perf ====
 +
 +On recent kernels, ''perf'' is the best tool for the job. It may profile the
 +whole system like with obsoleted OProfile but may be limited to a single
 +program, also. Before executing the workload to profile (or while it is
 +running), call:
 +<code>
 +# perf record
 +</code>
 +When done, finish recording using ''CTRL-c''. perf data will be written to //perf.data// in local directory. To analyse, call:
 +<code>
 +# perf report
 </code> </code>
  
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 of //test.c//. of //test.c//.
  
 +If linking happens in a separate step, some additional flags have to be passed to linker:
 +<code>
 +CFLAGS  += -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
 +LDFLAGS += -lgcov --coverage
 +</code>
  
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