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ftoc(1) General Commands Manual ftoc(1) NAME ftoc - interface between prof and cord SYNOPSIS ftoc file1 ... DESCRIPTION The ftoc interface reads one or more feedback files produced by the -feedback option of the profiler prof(1) and writes onto stdout a re- order-file for use with the cache-rearranging program cord(1). It in- terprets each feedback file as representing one phase of a program's execution. In other words, if a program behaves in two distinct ways depending on its input, you could create two different feedback files by executing the program twice with different input data, and both ftoc and cord will understand that the information from the first file is distinct from that of the second file. As an example, to improve the instruction-cache performance of a pro- gram called hello, you could generate a new hello.cord program by say- ing: cc -non_shared -o hello hello.c pixie -o hello.pixie hello hello.pixie prof -pixie -feedback hello.feedback hello ftoc hello.feed- back > hello.reorder cord -o hello.cord hello hello.reorder The reorderfile consists of a list of lines of the form: sourcefile procname.procname... n where "procname.procname..." represents an outer-to-inner list of nested procedures, and n is 10 times the per- centage of the procedure's "density" with respect to the total of the densities of all procedures. ("Density" is the ratio of a procedure's total cycles to its total static instructions.) A line consisting of "$phase" separates information from different feedback files. RELATED INFORMATION cord(1), pixie(1), prof(1) delim off ftoc(1)