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Program Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Duration Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Module Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Module Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Using the Software Performance Measurement Tool . . . . . . . 4-5
Setting Up the Trace Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Activity Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Using Trace Commands Other than the Default. . . . . 4-6
Duration Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Initializing the Performance Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Default Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Initialization with User Defined Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Address Range File Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Time Range File Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Selecting Duration Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Initialization with Global Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Initialization with Local Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Restoring the Current Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Running the Performance Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Ending the Performance Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Using the "perf32" Report Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
Interpreting Reports of Activity Measurements . . . . . 4-12
Memory Activity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
Program Activity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
Relative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Absolute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Mean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Standard Deviation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Symbols Within Range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Additional Symbols for Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Relative and Absolute Counts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14
Error Tolerance and Confidence Level. . . . . . . . . 4-14
Interpreting Reports of Duration Measurements . . . . . 4-15
Number of Intervals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Maximum Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Minimum Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Average Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
Standard Deviation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16
Error Tolerance and Confidence Level. . . . . . . . . 4-16
Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17
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