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Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2: Simple Performance Optimization Tool (SPOT) User's Guide
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Preface

1.  The Simple Performance Optimization Tool (SPOT)

2.  Running SPOT on Your Application

3.  Understanding SPOT Reports

Index

Preface

The Simple Performance Optimization Tool (SPOT) can help you diagnose performance problems that can limit the speed of an application. Running your application with SPOT is complementary to running it under the Oracle Solaris Studio Performance Analyzer and looking at the resulting experiment.

Who Should Use This Book

This manual is intended for application developers with a working knowledge of Fortran, C, C++, or Java programming languages. Users of the performance tools need some understanding of the Solaris operating system, or the Linux operating system, and UNIX? operating system commands. Some knowledge of performance analysis is helpful but is not required to use the tools.

Accessing Oracle Solaris Studio Documentation

You can access the documentation at the following locations:

Documentation in Accessible Formats

The documentation is provided in accessible formats that are readable by assistive technologies for users with disabilities. You can find accessible versions of documentation as described in the following table.

Type of Documentation
Format and Location of Accessible Version
Manuals and Tutorials
HTML from the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 collection on http://docs.sun.com
What's New in the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 Release (information that was included in the component Readmes in previous releases)
HTML from the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 collection on http://docs.sun.com
Man pages
In the installed product through the man command
Online help
HTML available through the Help menu Help buttons, and F1 key in the IDE, Performance Analyzer, DLight, and dbxtool.
Release notes
HTML from the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 collection on http://docs.sun.com

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Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface
Meaning
Example
AaBbCc123
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output
Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% you have mail.

AaBbCc123
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output
machine_name% su

Password:

aabbcc123
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value
The command to remove a file is rm filename.
AaBbCc123
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

A cache is a copy that is stored locally.

Do not save the file.

Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle Solaris release.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell
Prompt
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell
$
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell for superuser
#
C shell
machine_name%
C shell for superuser
machine_name#