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From: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Counting FLOPS
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Date: 15 Feb 91 00:40:44 GMT
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How does one count the number of floating point operations (flops) during
the execution of a C program?  I guess it is possible to trace manually all
loops and function calls and iterations and recursions, etc., and add them
up, but that will easily gets out of hand for a half-way complicated program.
Are there automatic tools for doing this?

I am primarily interested in a solution which will work under RISC Ultrix,
if that matters.

Rouben Rostamian

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