Christian Hergert has announced the PerfKit tool (or as he calls it, a “toy”) during the Linux Plumbers Conference taking place this week in Cambridge. PerfKit provides a GTK user-interface and the ability to provide plug-ins that hook into the various developer utilities like Valgrind (memory profiling/debugging), FTrace (trace system calls), Perf, and other areas. Thereby with PerfKit you don’t need to worry about the individual utilities and it’s all presented from a nice user-interface. It’s like a Phoronix Test Suite for developer tools…
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