Usage Examples

These are example scenarios intended to give a flavor of how the project’s tools and APIs would possibly be used.

Note

These example scenarios are meant to invite discussion — the names and situations in them are entirely fictitious.

• Debugging the performance of a production service

  Multi-system, end-to-end, measurement.

• Designing a new CPU

  High-precision, fine-grained control over measurements.

• Improving a web hosting service

  Speeding up PHP & Javascript runtimes.

• Measuring a microkernel

  Using Mensurae to improve research OSes.

• Profiling Python

  Speeding up a Python application.

• Reducing user-perceptible jitter

  Finding the root causes for variations in response speed.

• Teaching an operating systems course

  Mensurae as a teaching aid.

• Tracking down a performance regression in a video player

  Comparing current and historical measurements.

• Whole system profiling

  Profiling everything at one shot.