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List of performance analysis tools

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ6633298 ↗
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This is a list of performance analysis tools for use in software development.

General purpose, language independent

The following tools work based on log files that can be generated from various systems.

time (Unix) - can be used to determine the run time of a program, separately counting user time vs. system time, and CPU time vs. clock time.

timem (Unix) - can be used to determine the wall-clock time, CPU time, and CPU utilization similar to time (Unix) but supports numerous extensions.

Supports reporting peak resident set size, major and minor page faults, priority and voluntary context switches via getrusage.

Supports sampling procfs on supporting systems to report metrics such as page-based resident set size, virtual memory size, read-bytes, and write-bytes, etc.

Supports collecting hardware counters when built with PAPI support.

Multiple languages

The following tools work for multiple languages or binaries.

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