Tools

There are numerous tools available to make testing, debugging and profiling concurrent applications easier. Intel has a large set of very good tools, some of which are free, but most requires a license. The list of Open Source tools are growing rapidly, but still has ways to go. === Open Source Tools === * gdb (the standard gnu debugger, which handles threads fairly well) * valgrind (and callgrind, cachegrind etc.), together with kcachegrind * [http://rogue.colorado.edu/pin/ Pin] is a dynamic binary instrumentation tool === Intel tools === * vtune * [http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/1437.htm PTU], the Performance Tuning Utility