# Performance Analyzer

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{{Infobox software
|name                       = Performance Analyzer
|screenshot                 = PerformanceAnalyzer.png
|developer                  = [Oracle](/source/Oracle_Corporation)
|released                   = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
|latest release version     = 12.5
|latest release date        = {{Release date and age|2016|06}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Oracle® Developer Studio 12.5: Release Notes |url=https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E60778_01/html/E60741/index.html}}</ref>
|operating system           = [Solaris](/source/Solaris_(operating_system)) and [Linux](/source/Linux)
|genre                      = [Profiler](/source/Profiler_(computer_science))
|license                    = [Commercial](/source/Commercial_software) [proprietary software](/source/proprietary_software)
|website                    = {{Official URL}}
}}
'''Performance Analyzer''' is a commercial [utility software](/source/utility_software) for [software performance analysis](/source/software_performance_analysis) for [x86](/source/x86) or [SPARC](/source/SPARC) machines. It has both a [graphical user interface](/source/graphical_user_interface)<ref>{{cite book | title=Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud |isbn = 9780133390094|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQdvAQAAQBAJ&q=solaris+studio+performance+analyzer&pg=PA119|last1 = Gregg|first1 = Brendan|year = 2014}}</ref> and a [command line interface](/source/command_line_interface). It is available for both [Linux](/source/Linux) and [Solaris](/source/Solaris_(operating_system)) operating systems. It can profile C, C++, and [Java](/source/Java_(programming_language)).<ref>{{cite web |title=Java Performance: Hardware, Structures, and Algorithms |url=https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2014/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2654 |access-date=2014-10-21 |archive-date=2015-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906011920/https://oracleus.activeevents.com/2014/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2654 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Performance Analyzer is available as part of [Oracle Developer Studio](/source/Oracle_Developer_Studio). It has visualization capabilities, can read out [hardware performance counter](/source/hardware_performance_counter)s,<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Schmidl |first1=Dirk |first2=Christian |last2=Terboven |first3=Dieter |last3=an Mey |first4=Matthias S. |last4=Müller |title=Suitability of Performance Tools for OpenMP Task-Parallel Programs |conference=Proc. 7th Int'l Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing |year=2013 |pages=25–37 |isbn=9783319081441 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-I64BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27}}</ref> thread synchronization, memory allocations and I/O, and specifically supports Java, [OpenMP](/source/OpenMP), [MPI](/source/Message_Passing_Interface), and the Solaris kernel.

==See also==
*[List of performance analysis tools](/source/List_of_performance_analysis_tools)
*[Performance analysis](/source/Profiling_(computer_programming))
*[VTune](/source/VTune)

==References==
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Category:Sun Microsystems software
Category:Profilers

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