New to This Version

New Features in Version 2.8

In this release, the following features are added to the AMD CodeAnalyst tool:

Features Added to Version 2.7

CodeAnalyst 2.7 added support for Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS.) Instruction Sampling is a new performance measurement technique supported by AMD Family 10h processors. IBS has these advantages:

See Instruction-Based Sampling for more information about IBS. The sections Analysis with Instruction-Based Sampling and Collecting an Instruction-Based Sampling Profile give step-by-step directions for collecting IBS profile data.

CodeAnalyst reports IBS performance information as derived events. Derived events are similar to the events reported by Event-Based Profiling. The IBS-derived events are described in Instruction-Based Sampling Derived Events.

CodeAnalyst supports the new performance monitoring events provided by AMD Family 10h processors. See Performance Monitoring Events for AMD Family 10h Processors.

The online help has been restructured and revised. The new structure follows the CodeAnalyst workflow. See the Introduction to AMD CodeAnalyst Online Help.

 

Features Added to Version 2.6

Many new features were added to the previous release (2.6) of AMD CodeAnalyst for Linux®. Briefly, these new features include: