Code Profiling Utilities Manual

HP Code Profiling Utilities Manual—542684-003

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Code Profiling Usage Scenarios

This section provides two examples of code profiling: one for optimizing an application

using profile-guided optimization and one for the creation and analysis of a code

coverage report. These examples include all the steps discussed in the preceding

sections.

Profile-Guided Optimization Example

Profile-guided optimization provides a way of improving the performance of an

application. For maximum performance improvement, profile-guided optimization can

be used in addition to the traditional ways of optimizing a program. This traditional

method is shown in Figure 9-1.