Cachegrind simulates how your program interacts with a machine's cache hierarchy and (optionally) branch predictor. It simulates a machine with independent first-level instruction and data caches (I1 and D1), backed by a unified second-level cache (L2).
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Trouble configuring cachegrind with Xdebug
I am trying to configure Xdebug for cachegrind but I can't manage to enable the profiler feature in order to dump executed web pages.
I'm using the official guide (and a few more with similar settings) and it doesn't seem to work.
I've tried on…
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cachegrind counts do not reflect real performance
Two versions of the same algorithm yield different total instruction fetch counts and cycle estimations under valgrind/cachegrind. The difference is about 25%. Process timing, however, is very similar (it is actually shorter for the cachegrind-slow…
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