Thank you, I'm looking at VTune' tutorials.
Ale

Alessandro wrote:
>Hi, is there a tool for windows that does the same as the matlab profiler
>does, I need to accurately measure the CPU time for every instruction. 

When you say instructions, you probably don't mean machine instructions.
In the C world people usually talk about statements and function calls.
If you really mean machine instructions, get the intel cpu manuals and
look at the assembly code generated by the compiler. 

Otherwise use a profiler.  If you work with gnu tools (e.g. mingw)
there are two programs for profiling: gcov and gprof.

gr.
Anton

alessandro.saccoia@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> is there a tool for windows that does the same as the matlab profiler
> does, I need to accurately measure the CPU time for every instruction.

Yes, it is called a profiler. Most compiler Integrated Developer
Environments
(IDE) provide one. Some IDE manufacturers make several versions of
their
IDEs. You may have to buy a professional edition IDE, intended for
more serious developers, to get the profiler.

Rune

Alessandro--

>Hi,
>is there a tool for windows that does the same as the matlab profiler
>does, I need to accurately measure the CPU time for every instruction.
>Thanks,
>Alessandro

Well as Randy said, the assembly manual is the most assured way of
understanding CPU cycles for assembly code. But this approach gets very
complicated when: 

1]High-levels of determinisms are required(unlikely in a desktop
application)

2] Application is huge and is written in high-level languages like C and
C++, hence estimating cycles from assembly code is impractical.

3] When underlying architecture(CPU) is super scalar. (Predicting the
pipelining and parallilsm at compile time in a super scalar architecture
is not possible)

A]VTune:
-------
If you fall in any of the above case then you should get yourself a
windows based, pentium CPU profiler called:VTUNE. Its a very powerful
profiler used to benchmark pentium code. 

Try this link for product overview:

http://www.intel.com/software/products/vtune/

Try these links for VTune Demo and Tutorials:

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/course/2004/ssd/profilers/vtune_v7_b42.exe
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/course/2004/ssd/profilers/gs_vtune.zip
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/course/2004/ssd/profilers/VTUNEDEMO.ZIP


B] VC++ Profiler
If you are looking at a VC++ based profiler, look at the following link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_core_function_profiling.asp

C] VC++ Vs Rational Quantify:

Trade-offs between VC++ based profiler and IBM Rationals' Quantify tool,
look at the following link:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/academics/courses/fall1999/cmsc838s/Apps/billshap/

D] And for a generic presentation on profilers and their use:

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/course/2004/ssd/profilers/profilers.ppt

Hope this helps.

--Bhooshan

Yeah, it's called the assembly language manual. Intel used to have
the reference manuals on-line. Take a Google.

--Randy

Hi,
is there a tool for windows that does the same as the matlab profiler
does, I need to accurately measure the CPU time for every instruction.
Thanks,
Alessandro