PAPI aims to provide the tool designer and
application engineer with a consistent interface
and methodology for use of the performance counter
hardware found in most major microprocessors.
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Default support for libpfm4. PERF_COUNT_SW software events are available under perf_events with libpfm4. Nehalem/Westmere/SandyBridge event support is ready, but support is not yet available in the Linux kernel. A new utility to display PAPI error codes and description strings. Support for handling multi-attach properly. The CUDA component is now thread-safe. Multiple CPU threads can access the same CUDA context. A lot of code cleanup. Support for AMD Bobcat, Intel SandyBridge, and ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9. Many bugfixes.
