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From: rcg@lpi.liant.com (Rick Gorton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RS6000 dynamic instruction counting
Keywords: SPARC, instruction-count, profile
Message-ID: <1991May14.131851.18775@lpi.liant.com>
Date: 14 May 91 13:18:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: lpi.1991May14.131851.18775
References: <13037@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Language Processors Inc., Framingham MA
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In article <13037@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> varun@firefly.Eng.Sun.COM (Varun Mehta) writes:
>Does anybody know of an available dynamic instruction count package
>for the RS6000?  This is akin to pixie for mips and I've heard of a
>publically available one for SPARC as well. 
>
>Varun Mehta

I'm looking for the SPARC package.  Anyone know how I can get it?
A paper by a couple of SUN people presented at ASPLOS-IV refers
to "spix", "spixstats", and "shadow".  Are these the [SPARC] ones
you are alluding to?

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