There are so many examples of applications using pre-processing strategy that it is trivial. For example using a webcam we often find the device driver doing some software adjustments and corrections such as white balancing. Too often we find devices using software features. Other examples would be in a pipeline and User Interfaces. When it comes to UI we already learned to fill the list when the user clicks the drop-down, so only when the user really wants to use the list we will "pay" for the data.

Introduction

One of the great features in Intel® VTune™ Amplifier is the use of the event monitoring registers built into Intel processors. These can give us important insights into what is really happening on a system. The event monitoring allows the profiling of code in terms of what causes caches misses, unaligned memory accesses, denormalized numeric computations and hundred of other types of processor and memory activity.