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Tracing interactive 3D graphics programs

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J. Craig Dunwoody,

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I3D '90: Proceedings of the 1990 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics

Pages 155 - 163

https://doi.org/10.1145/91385.91439

Published: 01 February 1990 Publication History

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The two goals of graphics performance analysis are to characterize application workloads and to understand how systems perform under these workloads. We have developed a set of tools to help achieve these goals. TGEN is a tracing program that intercepts graphics library calls from an application program and records them in a file. TPROF is a profiler that interprets a trace file and computes workload statistics. TBENCH is a portable performance measurement tool that executes a trace file on a graphics system and measures the resulting update time. In this paper, we describe these tools and give examples of their use.

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I3D '90: Proceedings of the 1990 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics

February 1990

271 pages

ISBN:0897913515

DOI:10.1145/91385

Chairman:
Michael J. Zyda
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 24, Issue 2
Mar. 1990
241 pages
ISSN:0097-8930
DOI:10.1145/91394
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Richard J. Beach
Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA
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