Use this tag to ask questions about Intel® VTune™ Profiler, which is an advanced performance profiler to find and optimize performance bottlenecks across CPU, GPU, and FPGA systems.
Questions tagged [intel-vtune]
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Find index of nearest in sorted vector
I wrote a C++ routine to find nearest double element in sorted array. Is there a way to speed up?
There are two branches based on the value of boolean reversed, if reversed it is sorted in the decreasing order.
void…

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VTune using Windows embedded OS
I am wondering if it is possible to use VTune 2013 or VTune2015 using a Windows embedded operating system. I read on the release notes that "embedded editions not supported" but I would like to know if there is a way for example to collect data on a…

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What causes spike in branch predictions Vtune
I am launching an application using VTune and profiling it. Once the test is run, I see a spike in branch prediction unit.
To optimize my application, I need to figure out what part of the code causes this spike. Is there a way through VTune I can…

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Intel VTune command line error
I am trying to use VTune command line to set maximum number of samples to be collected before the collection stops. For this I have using the -msc command but I get an error saying unknown command.
The command I am using is : "C:\Program…

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Intel VTune Sampling after certain period of time
I am new to VTune and was playing around with it. One thing that I was not able to figure out was how do I get multiple samples of the events after every 20 seconds and save them in a text file.
For example, run an application using VTune and get…

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VTune Amplifier XE 2015 architecural anaylsis
I recently downloaded the VTune Amplifier XE 2015 to profile applications.
For analysis, I want to profile in terms of both architectural and micro-architectural events. I found that it is possible to get the micro-architectural analysis when…

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What is causing the cache misses in my code?
I'm trying to optimise a part of code that is called within a parallel region (OpenMP). I did a memory access analyses with Intel VTune Amplifier 2015 and am a bit confused about the result. I repeated the analyses with optimization level O1, O2 and…

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How to find Cycles per instruction of an i7 processor
I was trying to see a CPI value of a program on a i7 processor with vtune amplifier XE 2011.(on win8 x64)
according to the tutorial, viewpoint of
Hardware Event Counts
Hardware Event Sample Counts
Lightweight Hotspots
Hardware Issues
will sow the…

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vtune function call count
What technique does the vtune amplifier 2015 uses to estimate
function call count ?
I know that it does not give accurate information.
I thought , it uses
call count = total clock cycles taken by function / clock cycles for single function run
Is…

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How to adjust Qt Creator for VTune Amplifier in Linux (Ubuntu)
Intel VTune Amplifier does not show source code (only assembly) for C++ project from Qt Creator. How can i fix it?

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Compiling nodejs with vtune and jitprofiling.h support
My only purpose is do profiling of JavaScript code under Node.js with vTune.
I tried to follow the steps that appear under this post: Profiling Nodejs with vTune, but I have no luck.
I use Debian 7 x86_64, and my version of vTune Amplifier XE is…

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, Vtune Amplifier Error
Currently I'm using VTune analyzer in linux system to profiling java code.
I generated report by attaching it to the running process.
However, in top-down tree, I usually can see [Outside any known module] which took certain amount of time.
When I…

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Running VTune Amplifier 2014 for Android Systems on Windows using Eclipse
I am new to VTune Amplifier and I am developing an Android application on Intel Atom processor. When I try to run profiling I get the following error
I am using Intel Vtune Amplifier 2014 for Android Systems.
amplxe: Error: Cannot enable Hardware…

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-g flag changes runtime and compilation of program
I am writing a program that attempts to speed up a Top K filtering alogrithm using SSE and AVX SIMD instructions.
I am compiling my program using icc with the flags -o3, -msse3, and -lrt, and the run-time comes out to ~30ms. However, when I put a…
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What causes the retired instructions to increase?
I have a 496*O(N^3) loop. I am performing a blocking optimization technique where I'm operating 2 images at a time instead of 1. In raw terms, I am unrolling the outer loop. (The non-unrolled version of the code is as shown below: ) b.t.w I'm using…

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