Install "perf" on Mac

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wlhee picture wlhee · Apr 21, 2014 · Viewed 26.8k times · Source

I need the "perf" utility to monitor the program on my Mac. I know linux comes with it, but is it available on Mac?

I am working on a OSX 10.9 Mavericks and tried "port search" for perf or linux-tools, but I couldn't get any results.

Answer

Manuel Selva picture Manuel Selva · Apr 27, 2014

As @Sami Laine said in his comment, the Linux perf tool is dependent on Linux specific code. It relies on the perf_event_open system call which is not standardized.

Note: Maybe you could search how MacOSX users are using recent hardware performance counters.

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