Tracing interactive 3D graphics programs
J. Craig Dunwoody, Mark Linton · 1990
The two goals of graphics performance analysis are to characterize application workloads and to understand how systems perform under these workloads. We have developed a set of tools to help achieve these goals. TGEN is a tracing program that intercepts graphics library calls from an application program and records them in a file. TPROF is a profiler that interprets a trace file and computes workload statistics. TBENCH is a portable performance measurement tool that executes a trace file on a graphics system and measures the resulting update time. In this paper, we describe these tools and give examples of their use.