[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Vorbis decoding performance

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/9/06, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>
> >
> > (All of the abose AFAIU oprofile and Perfmon)
> >
>
> oprofile (kernel module) exposes the performance counters to userspace
> oprofile (userspace suite) let you read them at various stages.

Well, last time I used oprofile, I had to be root to set the perf
counters, that's why I didn't see it as a way to implement START/STOP
macros (which aren't supposed to need privileged access).
... but maybe I just lack Oprofile expertise ^^

G
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