A Call-Graph Profiler for GNU Octave
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2008-10-21 v1 Programming Languages
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Abstract
We report the design and implementation of a call-graph profiler for GNU Octave, a numerical computing platform. GNU Octave simplifies matrix computation for use in modeling or simulation. Our work provides a call-graph profiler, which is an improvement on the flat profiler. We elaborate design constraints of building a profiler for numerical computation, and benchmark the profiler by comparing it to the rudimentary timer start-stop (tic-toc) measurements, for a similar set of programs. The profiler code provides clean interfaces to internals of GNU Octave, for other (newer) profiling tools on GNU Octave.
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@article{arxiv.0810.3468,
title = {A Call-Graph Profiler for GNU Octave},
author = {Muthiah Annamalai and Leela Velusamy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3468},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Fix typos