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    11 <h2>Profiler</h2>
       
    12 <p>The profiler is the part of the Performance Investigator that resides on the target device. Its purpose is to gather performance measurement information from the device at run-time and to output the information to be analyzed within the Analyzer part of the tool. Each type of performance information recorded is called a trace. The most important Profiler traces include:</p>
       
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    14   <li> Address / thread trace periodically records the current program counter address and the currently executing thread.</li>
       
    15   <li>Dynamic binary support trace periodically records information sufficient to determine which dynamically loaded user application or DLL is executing.</li>
       
    16   <li>Function call trace periodically records the link register value, so that the caller of the currently executing routine can be determined.</li>
       
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    18 <p><strong>Related references </strong></p>
       
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    20   <li><a href="../../tasks/profiler/prof_installation.htm">Installing the Profiler on the Target Device</a></li>
       
    21   <li><a href="prof_using.htm">Using the Profiler</a></li>
       
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