Intel® Software Network

Secrets of Performance Tuning
This series of five articles describes how Intel® compilers and the Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer are used together for software optimization. It serves as a guide for software developers to extract the best performance from Intel® processors.

While these articles were developed with Intel® Itanium® processors in mind, several of the concepts explained apply to programming on Intel® Pentium® processors and processors based on Intel® 64 architecture.

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Accelerating Performance of the MiTAC Smartphone Camera Driver
Using examples from the MiTAC Smartphone camera driver, this paper describes step by step how to get profiling data and improve code.

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Advantages of VTune™ Performance Analyzer Over Other Profilers
This document highlights the unique capabilities of the VTune environment, compared to other profilers.

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Introduction to Microarchitectural Optimization for Itanium® 2 Processors
This reference manual introduces the systematic use of Itanium® 2 processor performance monitoring events to analyze execution efficiency.

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When Good Code Goes Bad
This article identifies common performance pitfalls and gives tips about how to avoid them.

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Optimizing with Major Gain for Little or No Pain
This article explains how to maximize the benefit received from a minimum amount of optimization effort.

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Java* Performance Profiling Using the VTune Performance Analyzer
This paper describes the use of the Call Graph feature and time- and event-based sampling in Java-based applications.

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Technologies for Measuring Software Performance: VTune Analyzers
This white paper outlines the use of the VTune environment to locate and resolve performance bottlenecks.

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The Software Optimization Cookbook:
Revealing the secrets of the software tuning process, The Software Optimization Cookbook provides recipes for high-performance applications.

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