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  • Related to OM/ATOM/Hiprof: There are also derivative products, for example "Client Server News Issue 192 (G-2 Computer Intelligence Inc, 3 Maple Place, PO Box 7, Glen Head, New York 11545-9864, USA Telephone: 516-759-7025 Fax: 516-759-7028)" reports
    CS192-24 TRACEPOINT NAMES ITS FIRST PRODUCT DEC spin-off Tracepoint Technology named its first product HiProf, as we suspected it would (CSN No 185), and described it as a graphical hierarchical profiler that will enable C++ developers to analyze the binaries of 32-bit x86 applications and figure out where modifications should be made. The first of a family, the tool is based on a patented Binary Code Instrumentation technology that displays a detailed analysis of an application's execution in Tracepoint's IDE. The company's core framework can handle executables and .dlls that have been generated by compiling software as well. Therefore, source code shouldn't have to be recompiled. The data can be viewed on a threads basis. HiProf is due out next month at $599 and runs on Win95 or NT 3.51 or later. It supports apps developed with VC++ 2.0 or above and Microsoft Developer Studio 4.03.
    Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: ANNOUNCE - Fast Code Coverage Tool Date: 8 May 1997 21:27:24 -0400 Organization: Tracepoint/DIGITAL Lines: 33 Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: compilers@ivan.iecc.com Message-ID: <97-05-111@comp.compilers> Reply-To: jgarvin@scruznet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ivan.iecc.com Keywords: testing, tools, available ANNOUNCING - TestTrack, Fast Code Coverage Tool for 32-bit Windows Apps TracePoint Technology has just opened the beta for TestTrack - an advanced code coverage tool that analyses test results and identifies areas in your code that have not been tested. Since TestTrack works on compiled and linked binary code (no source code or obj files required), there=92s no need for recompiling or preprocessing so the entire process is dramatically quicker than with past generation tools. TestTrack analyzes and reports on coverage of several different types including; function coverage, class coverage, line coverage, branch coverage, multiple condition coverage, call-pair coverage and more. TestTrack allows you to selectively exclude portions of the code base , if desired, so you can analyze only those portions of an app that concern you. A robust and intuitive GUI displays results in "live" pie charts or bar graphs that let you drill down into the code represented with just a mouse click, extensive reporting capabilities include the ability to publish reports in html, and a powerful merge function allows you to merge the results of several test runs for total coverage analysis. In addition, TestTrack identifies dead code in your app which is no longer used but which can slow performance and bloat program size. An evaluation copy of the latest TestTrack beta is available for free download from TracePoint at www.tracepoint.com. TestTrack works on 32-bit apps generated with VC++ 2.x - 5.0. TracePoint is a recent spin-off of DIGITAL Equipment Corp, whose mission is to create and market advanced development tools for 32-bit Windows apps. For further information on TracePoint visit our web site or call 888-688-2504.
  • From: dcpi-czar@pa.dec.com (Lance Berc) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.compilers Subject: New Alpha Performance Analysis Tools Date: 20 Jun 1997 21:43:17 -0400 Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center Lines: 33 Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: compilers@ivan.iecc.com Message-ID: <97-06-084@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivan.iecc.com Keywords: tools, available
    Version 2.2 of the DIGITAL Continuous Profiling Infrastructure, a set of performance tools for Digital Alpha systems running Digital Unix, is available for general use.
    The Digital Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Digital Alpha platforms permits continuous low-overhead profiling of entire systems, including the kernel, user programs, drivers, and shared libraries. The system is efficient enough that it can be left running all the time, allowing it to be used to drive online profile-based optimizations for production systems.
    The Continuous Profiling Infrastructure maintains a database of profile information that is incrementally updated for every executable image that runs. A suite of profile analysis tools analyzes the profile information at various levels. At one extreme, the tools show what fraction of cpu cycles were spent executing the kernel and each user program. At the other extreme, the tools show how long a particular instruction stalls on average, e.g., because of a D-cache miss.
    DCPI runs under Digital Unix V3.2 and V4.x, with a port to WindowsNT underway. It is free of charge. Further information, including papers and man pages, can be found at: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/dcpi The system was developed at Digital's Systems Research Center and Western Research Laboratory, both in Palo Alto, California. A paper describing the system, will appear at SOSP-16 in October. -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.com, meta-mail to compilers-request@iecc.com.
    See http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/dcpi

  • SIS -- a SPARC V7 instruction set simulator, cycle accurate including parallel execution of IU and FPU and operand dependency stalls. Comments to Jiri Gaisler <jgais@wd.estec.esa.nl>.

  • From: el@compelcon.se (Erik Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: asm -> structured form Date: 14 Jan 1998 14:28:38 -0500 Organization: Algonet/Tninet Lines: 22 Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: compilers@ivan.iecc.com Message-ID: <98-01-055@comp.compilers> References: <98-01-013@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivan.iecc.com Keywords: disassemble, tools, comment Have a look at Christina Cifuentes work with decompilers at http://www.it.uq.edu.au/groups/csm/dcc.html Also, have a look at Frans Faase's excellent compilation of decompiler efforts at http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl:8080/~faase/Ha/decompile.html (There is a disclaimer at the top of the page that Mr Faase has left the faculty and might be unable to maintain the page. But the last update is dated in december 1997... Hope he can keep it!) Best Regards, Erik Lundh Compelcon AB SWEDEN Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: [I'm impressed -- it does a better job of decompiling than anything I've seen elsewhere. It's still a far cry from the original source, but good enough to be a big help figuring out what a dusty old program does. -John] -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.com, meta-mail to compilers-request@iecc.com. Archives at http://www.iecc.com/compilers
  • Daisy, a VLIW + dynamic translator project at IBM.

  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 22:09:04 -0800 Message-Id: <199802230609.WAA08308@ncube> From: Steve Herrod To: simos-release@Crissy.Stanford.EDU Subject: Announcing SimOS Release 2.0! Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1628

    The SimOS team at Stanford University is pleased to announce the second release of our complete machine simulation environment. If you are receiving this email, then you have downloaded an earlier version of SimOS or were deemed "someone who may be interested". If you would like to be taken off this infrequently used list, send mail to "simos@cs.stanford.edu" and we'll take you off of it immediately.

    For those of you who need a refresher, SimOS is a "complete machine simulator" in that it models the hardware of uniprocessor and multiprocessor computers in enough detail to boot and run commercial operating systems as well as applications designed for these operating systems. This includes databases, web servers, and other workloads that traditional simulation tools have trouble supporting. Furthermore, SimOS executes these workloads at high speeds and provides support for easily collecting detailed hardware and software performance information.

    There have been substantial improvements and enhancements since the first SimOS release including:

    * Support for the Digital Alpha architecture running the Digital Unix operating system.

    * Support for the MIPS 64-bit architecture.

    * More modular hardware simulator interfaces that simplify the process of adding new processor, memory system, and device models.

    SimOS is available free of charge for the research community and runs on several different hardware platforms. For download information, research papers, a discussion group, and more, visit the new SimOS web site at:

    http://simos.stanford.edu

  • Connectix VirtualPC simulates a complete PC system including VGA, Audio Ethernet hardware and does sophisticated dynamic translation to achieve reasonable speeds (it's not exactly clear how well that works, but it seems that its achieved speed is between 25% and 80% native speed) and claims ``up to twice as fast as the competition.'' http://www.connectix.com/html/connectix_virtualpc.html and http://www.byte.com/art/9711/sec4/art4.htm

  • SoftWindows 98 is FWB Software's competitive product. Also, RealPC, also by FWB, is closer to VirtualPC in its design, it is a hardware-level emulator. See http://www.fwb.com. Note that both were originally developed by Insignia Solutions, see http://www.insignia.com.

  • Another interesting product is Inferno. See http://inferno.lucent.com. It describes the Inferno operating system, which is available both in native and application form and is VM-based, using dynamic translation to achieve (allegedly) a 1.5-2.5 times slowdown over native code. It is similar to TAOS in that it achieves application portability via a virtual machine. 

  • Date:         Sun, 21 Jun 1998 10:50:58 -0400
Reply-To: History of Computing Issues 
Sender: History of Computing Issues 
From: Lee Wittenberg 
Subject:      SSEM Simulator
To: SHOTHC-L@SIVM.SI.EDU
X-UIDL: 2b629fc6064ad7c8f2c0919e41c76276
    To coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Small Scale Experimental Machine at Manchester, I am releasing the first "official" version of an SSEM simulator written in Java, and therefore (presumably) platform-independent. Source and binaries are available at 
            ftp://samson.kean.edu/pub/leew/ssem/

  • From instruction-set simulation and tracing