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Discussion on: Perf - Perfect Profiling of C/C++ on Linux

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Jules Pénuchot

If you don't want to rely on Intel you can just surround the part of your program you want to inspect with a few asm("nop"); in your source and look for a bunch of nop instructions in your disassembled program. However you won't get any information about the throughput of your program.

I made a quick project to compare ASM programs very fast. The shell and CMake scripts take care of building all the programs in every "src__*" folder they find, disassemble them and eventually do the IACA inspection and dependency graph generation in one command. It's not a big thing but it helps when you want to inspect more than one program using IACA without modifying your program, etc...