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Valgrind is a memory profiling tool that can detect memory errors in C and C++ programs. Its Memcheck tool checks for memory leaks and errors. Massif is a heap profiler that measures memory usage. To use Massif, run your program with valgrind and the massif tool, then use ms_print to view the output. Gprof is a time profiling tool. To use it, compile with -pg, run your program, then use gprof on the executable to view profiling information about execution time.

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How To Use Profiling Tools New

Valgrind is a memory profiling tool that can detect memory errors in C and C++ programs. Its Memcheck tool checks for memory leaks and errors. Massif is a heap profiler that measures memory usage. To use Massif, run your program with valgrind and the massif tool, then use ms_print to view the output. Gprof is a time profiling tool. To use it, compile with -pg, run your program, then use gprof on the executable to view profiling information about execution time.

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How to use Profiling tools

A.Valgrind - Memory profiling tool


The Valgrind tool suite provides a number of debugging and profiling tools
that help you make your programs faster and more correct. The most popular of these
tools is called Memcheck. It can detect many memory-related errors that are common
in C and C++ programs and that can lead to crashes and unpredictable behaviour.

Memcheck tool:
1.Preparing your program -
Compile your program with -g to include debugging information so that
Memcheck's error messages include exact line numbers.

2.Running your program under Memcheck -


If you normally run your program like this:
myprog arg1 arg2

Use this command line:


valgrind --leak-check=yes myprog arg1 arg2

Massif tool : a heap profiler


Massif is a heap profiler. It measures how much heap memory your program
uses.

1.To gather heap profiling information about the program prog, type:
valgrind --tool=massif prog

2.Running ms_print -
To see the information gathered by Massif in an easy-to-read form, use
ms_print.
ms_print massif.out.12345

B.gprof - Time profiling tool


To determine which parts of a program are taking most of the execution time

1.Compile and link with the -pg option.

2. Run your program normally; that is, pretend you didn't do anything to it and do
what you would normally do (checking difficult, slow, or fast cases, of course).

3.Type gprof exec > out where exec is replaced by your executable's name and out by
some meaningful name for the profiling information.

4.Look over the output and learn what it means.

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