HP PAK Performance Analysis Tools User's Guide

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Technical Summary HP PAK 7.10 is an upgrade of HP PAK 7.0. The following list

summarizes the differences HP PAK 7.10 and HP PAK 7.0.

• XPS is unchanged in this release.

• A new tool, TTV, has been added to HP PAK. TTV reads, synthesizes,

and analyzes the trace ﬁles produced by the instrumented thread

library (libpthread_tr.sl or libpthread_tr.a), and presents

the resulting information in graphical form.

• Kernal thread support was added to Puma so that performance

metrics can be displayed on a per-thread basis. This support is visible

in the Pan/Zoom, Call Tree Analysis, and Playback windows.

• In Puma's Pan/Zoom Resource Use window, user and system CPU

cycles are shown as actual counts rather than as percentages.

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View Activity buttons were moved to the bottom of the window.

• Puma's Call Tree Analysis textual and graphical windows were joined

to a single display. You can toggle between textual (tabular) and

graphical formats from one window.

• A tutorial was added to the Puma online help.

• Online help is available in Japanese as well as English.

• SJIS character support for pathnames was added.