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| author | Aliaksey Kandratsenka <alkondratenko@gmail.com> | 2016-02-29 20:09:39 -0800 |
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| committer | Aliaksey Kandratsenka <alkondratenko@gmail.com> | 2016-02-29 20:09:39 -0800 |
| commit | 66e1e94f38467b5c7bbfb05e3c7267f3039a2c69 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ad9df02381064de3a1b253d496c366e52802e7e | |
| parent | 2804b7cfee8d49d5ab98340cbf3050c0a5f57b98 (diff) | |
| download | gperftools-66e1e94f38467b5c7bbfb05e3c7267f3039a2c69.tar.gz | |
added minimal "header section" to README
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@@ -1,7 +1,25 @@ -IMPORTANT NOTE FOR 64-BIT USERS -------------------------------- -There are known issues with some perftools functionality on x86_64 -systems. See 64-BIT ISSUES, below. +gperftools +---------- +(originally Google Performance Tools) + +The fastest malloc we’ve seen; works particularly well with threads +and STL. Also: thread-friendly heap-checker, heap-profiler, and +cpu-profiler. + + +OVERVIEW +--------- + +gperftools is a collection of a high-performance multi-threaded +malloc() implementation, plus some pretty nifty performance analysis +tools. + +gperftools is distributed under the terms of the BSD License. Join our +mailing list at gpeftools@googlegroups.com for updates. + +gperftools was original home for pprof program. But do note that +original pprof (which is still included with gerftools) is now +deprecated in favor of golang version at https://github.com/google/pprof TCMALLOC |