Intel® Thread Profiler for Windows* - Execution Speed

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September 19, 2008 1:00 AM PDT


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For Windows* or Pthreads* API: Execution Speed
The first run of your software under Intel® Thread Profiler for Windows* or Pthreads* API will accumulate the overhead of instrumentation and reflect the overhead in the results. All subsequent runs of the same executable code will generally have very little of this overhead. Therefore, you should always use the results from the second or later activity runs for your analysis.
For OpenMP*: Execution Speed
Intel Thread Profiler for OpenMP* generally adds very little overhead and is not noticeable.


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