performance: act, efficiency, play Framewave.sf.net >>Derived from the AMD Performance Library, Framewave is a free and open-source collection of popular image and signal processing routines designed to accelerate application development, debugging, multi-threading and optimization on x86-class processor platforms. LinuxForums.org/desktop/linux_performance_tuning.html $ dtrace gprof is the GNU Profiler, a tool used when tracking which functions are eating CPU in your program. Anyway, you should already be familiar with it if you got interested in this page.