7.4 Analyzing the Performance of an OpenMP Program

The Collector and Performance Analyzer are a pair of Sun Studio tools that can be used to collect and analyze performance data for an application. The Collector tool collects performance data using a statistical method called profiling and by tracing function calls. The Performance Analyzer processes the data recorded by the Collector, and displays various metrics of performance at program, function, OpenMP parallel region, OpenMP task, source-line, and assembly instruction levels. The Performance Analyzer can also display the raw data in a graphical format as a function of time.

See the collect(1) and analyzer(1) man pages and the Sun Studio Performance Analyzer manuals for more details.