Performance Analyzer is a commercial

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for software performance analysis for x86 or

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machines. It has both a

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and a

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. It is available for both

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and Solaris operating systems. It can profile C, C++ and

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. Performance Analyzer is available as part of Oracle Developer Studio. It has visualization capabilities, can read out

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s, thread synchronization, memory allocations and I/O, and specifically supports Java,

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, and the Solaris kernel.

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{{reflist Sun Microsystems software Profilers

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