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8 years ago

Profiling OpenCL kernel code

Setting up profiling for standard applications is usually fairly trivial. For example, to generate C or C++ language code coverage analysis, it's a simple matter of adding "--coverage" to the gcc co...
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8 years ago

There is a lot more than "ZERO" documentation: "Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL Programming Guide, 1.11 Profiling Your OpenCL Kernel" and "Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL Best Practices Guide, 1.5 Profile Your Kernel to Identify Performance Bottlenecks". The "Schoolboy error" is not bothering to read the documentation.

Profiling is not supposed to be in the specification, it is supposed to be provided by the compiler, which is also provided by Altera's compiler in this case.