On 10 September 2013 20:38, Mike Pall <mike-1309@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > setitimer+SIGPROF is the default on POSIX and does not use > threads. > Does anybody know a simple way to run the profiler from Intel hardware performance events? (perhaps Linux can generate a SIGPROF from those instead of real time?) I would quite like to get this same profiler output but measuring branch-mispredictions, last-level-cache references, etc.