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VMG on Dec 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux 3.7 released

This allows developers to see what their programs are doing in more detail. They can then use that information to optimize their code.

tocomment on Dec 11, 2012 [–]

There's nothing similar in older linuxes?

deweerdt on Dec 11, 2012 | | [–]

There is, strace does just that. perf trace is still evolving though and appears promising. See, for example, scripting support: http://lwn.net/Articles/371448/

jiggy2011 on Dec 11, 2012 | | [–]

You can already see system calls with strace.

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