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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: FORTRAN program optimisation
Message-ID: <41012@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 25 Aug 89 22:43:03 GMT
References: <89Aug25.093608edt.57688@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> <41004@sgi.sgi.com>
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In article <41004@sgi.sgi.com> calvin@dinkum.wpd.sgi.com (Calvin H. Vu) writes:
>In article <89Aug25.093608edt.57688@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>, LEONARDZ@UOGUELPH.BITNET ("Len Zaifman  UoGuelph 824-4120 xt 6566", 519) writes:
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>>     Also, for a very large program such
>>     as this what are the recommended analysis tools on IRIX to help
>>     optimise the performance(hopefully without source code changes ). I am
>>     looking for tools which help restructure the binary(loaded) code to
>>     enhance performance.
>> 
>	Sorry we don't have any tools that can do optimization on loaded
>	binary code.
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Calvin is quite correct about release 3.1.  However for 3.2 we support
cord(1), which restructures a binary.   When you get 3.2 see the cord(1),
ftoc(1), prof(1), pixie(1), and cc(1) man pages for further information.

[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)964-1459x3060  davea@sgi.com ]