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Kcachegrind vs strace

A side-by-side look at Kcachegrind and strace. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Kcachegrind

Kcachegrind

Development

Kcachegrind is a visualization tool for profiling data generated by various profilers, such as Callgrind. It allows analyzing where a program spends its time, both in CPU usage and memory allocation. It is useful for performance optimization.

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strace

strace

Os & Utilities

strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux. It is used to monitor and tamper with interactions between processes and the Linux kernel, including system calls, signal deliveries, and changes of process state.

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