While Running the Trip Counts Tool

The Trip Counts tool runs your serial program's executable and profiles it to identify loops. After it performs the analysis of your program's execution, it displays the Trip Counts in the Survey Report.

While the Trip Counts tool is running your target program:

• Loop analysis data is collected as the program runs.

• When data collection completes, data finalization prepares the data for display.

• After finalization completes, the data appears in the Survey Report window.

• Information about loops appears in the Trip Counts column of the Survey Report, including the minimal, maximal, and average loop trip counts, as well as execution time statistics, and amount of calls to the target loop.

If you get impatient, you can stop or cancel the collection by doing one of the following:

• Stop data collection and retain the already collected data by clicking the button in the Advisor Workflow tab.

• Cancel data collection and discard the collected data. To do this, click the button in the Advisor Workflow tab.

• To interrupt data finalization, click the button.

Once loop data collection and analysis have completed, data appears in the Survey Report window. In addition to the Survey Report window, you can view details in the Source window.