Whither goes time?

Sponsor Kishore Ramachandran
rama@cc
217 CCB
Area Computer Architecture

Problem
Dynamic apps do a lot of mallocs and frees. The project is to use the Unix "gprof" tool to get a performance profile of a couple of dynamic applications. The specific goal is to determine if there is a significant overhead in using mallocs and frees in dynamic applications.

Learning outcome:

  1. familiarity with performance profiling tools such as gprof
  2. familiarity with dynamic applications

updated by Kishore, 8/31/99, 5:45pm.