1 HP Caliper at a Glance
What is HP Caliper?
HP Caliper is a
HP Caliper works with any native Integrity Server application. It does not require special compilation of the program being analyzed and does not require any special link options or libraries. HP Caliper supports programs compiled with any compiler option.
HP Caliper provides ways to:
•Measure the overall performance of a program
•Identify performance parameters of specific functions in a program
•Guide you in optimizing the performance of a program based on its specific execution profile HP Caliper has two user interfaces:
•Graphical user interface (GUI)
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These two interfaces are part of the same product. You can
The GUI can run either natively (locally) on the
HP Caliper operates in these modes:
•Data collection
•Report generation
•Performance analysis
The data collection output is saved automatically in a database for possible use later. Report generation can be done in the data collection run or in separate report generation runs later.
The output data is delivered in multiple report formats, with source and assembly code, and explanatory help text.
Figure 1 shows the HP Caliper components.
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