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.
Before you run the Trip Counts tool, you need to do the following:
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Perform Survey Analysis of the target application. You need the Survey results prior to finding the trip counts, as the Trip Counts tool adds information about loops into the Survey Report as well as maps the collection results to the Survey Analysis results.
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Decide which part of your program to examine for possible places to add parallelism.
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Choose the input data set or run-time parameters for your program. If you want to speed up your program generally, you can use typical input data. However, if you want to improve its performance on specific operations that it does particularly slowly, choose input data to emphasize these slow operations. Once you have prepared appropriate input data, configure your program with the chosen data.
- For the selected project, build a target using a Release build. The target must include debug information.
To run the Trip Counts tool with your program, do one of the following: