Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Ingo,

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  As a comparison, here's a session of a newbie developer, meeting
>  oprofile for the first time in his life (using a fresh package,
>  oprofile-0.9.3-6.fc8):
>
>   ---------------------->
>   [ Newbie: WTF, no GUI tool? ]
>   [ Narrator: we lose 90% of the developers at this point. ]

In all fairness, there's a GUI for oprofile too [1] but I don't think
it supports call trees as sysprof does which is IMHO the killer
feature of the latter.

  1. http://labs.o-hand.com/oprofileui/
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