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{{Infobox software

| developer = [[Intel]]

| latest release version = 3.1831

| latest release date = {{release date|20212024|0206|1030}}

| operating_system = [[Linux]], [[Windows]], [[macOS]]

| platform = [[IA-32]], [[x86-64]], [[Intel Xeon Phi]]

| genre = [[Instrumentation (computer programming)|Instrumentation framework]], [[Profiling (computer programming)|Profiler]]

| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]], Pin is given free of charge for non-commercialany use under the '''[https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/pintool/pinlicenseintel-simplified-software-license.txt EndIntel User License Agreement for the Intel®Simplified Software Development ProductsLicense]''', section 2.2 License for Noncommercial License Types.

| website = {{URL|http://www.intel.com/software/pintool}}

}}

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== Alternatives to Pin Tool ==

There are many other tools available to collect resource usage of running programs on the system such as [[Bell Lab]]’s strapon tool and [[Dyninst]] tool etc. [[Bell Lab]]’s tool uses the strap on technology which runs a tool to collect resources simultaneously with the program but this tool is only compatible with the programs which allow other programs to run simultaneously with them.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Building secure products and solutions.|journal = Bell Labs Technical Journal|volume = 12|issue = 3|page = 21-38|last = Gupta|first = Chandrashekhar|date = 2007|doi = 10.1002/bltj.20247| s2cid=30412754 }}</ref> Furthermore, Dyninst tool uses [[binary rewriting]] of the program’s executable and implementable commands inside the program to check for resource usage and is very efficient. However, it is very unstable as it is a relatively new tool and crashes on large scale programs.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Dynamic binary instrumentation and data aggregation on large scale systems|last = Lee|first = Schulz|date = 2007|journal = International Journal of Parallel Programming| volume=35 | issue=3 | pages=207–232 | doi=10.1007/s10766-007-0036-3 | s2cid=6653468 }}</ref> Lastly, [[Intel]] Pin tool uses static binary instrumentation and runs the program as a part of itself while keeping track of all its resources.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Analyzing Parallel Programs with PIN|journal = Computer|date = March 2010|issn = 0018-9162|pages = 34–41|volume = 43|issue = 3|doi = 10.1109/MC.2010.60|first1 = M.|last1 = Bach|first2 = M.|last2 = Charney|first3 = R.|last3 = Cohn|first4 = E.|last4 = Demikhovsky|first5 = T.|last5 = Devor|first6 = K.|last6 = Hazelwood|first7 = A.|last7 = Jaleel|first8 = Chi-Keung|last8 = Luk|first9 = G.|last9 = Lyons| s2cid=15155077 }}</ref> This approach is more suitable for an antivirus as it can easily run all the processes under itself and can kill programs if they reach a maximum allocated limit as defined by the antivirus.

== See also ==

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* {{cite journal |title=Analyzing Parallel Programs With Pin |author1=Moshe Bach |author2=Mark Charney |author3=Robert Cohn |author4=Elena Demikhovsky |author5=Tevi Devor |author6=Kim Hazelwood |author7=Aamer Jaleel |author8=Chi-Keung Luk |author9=Gail Lyons |author10=Harish Patil |author11=Ady Tal |name-list-style=amp |journal=Computer |volume=43 |number=3 |pages=34–41 |date=March 2010 |publisher=IEEE |url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/magazines/computer#4 |doi=10.1109/mc.2010.60 |s2cid=15155077 |access-date=2010-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229163736/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/magazines/computer#4 |archive-date=2010-12-29 |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription }}

* {{cite conference | title = Pin: Building Customized Program Analysis Tools with Dynamic Instrumentation | url = https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/150IPL/papers/luk05pin.pdf |author1=Chi-Keung Luk |author2=Robert Cohn |author3=Robert Muth |author4=Harish Patil |author5=Artur Klauser |author6=Geoff Lowney |author7=Steven Wallace |author8=Vijay Janapa Reddi |author9=Kim Hazelwood |name-list-style=amp | book-title = Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation | pages = 190–120 | date = June 2005 | publisher = ACM | ___location = Chicago, Illinois, USA }}

* {{cite conference | title = Dynamic Program Analysis of Microsoft Windows Applications | url = http://www.cs.virginia.edu/kim/docs/ispass10.pdf |author1=Alex Skaletsky |author2=Tevi Devor |author3=Nadav Chachmon |author4=Robert Cohn |author5=Kim Hazelwood |author6=Vladimir Vladimirov |author7=Moshe Bach | book-title = International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Software and Systems (ISPASS) | pages = 2–12 | date = April 2010 | ___location = White Plains, NY | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160918102825/http://www.cs.virginia.edu/kim/docs/ispass10.pdf | archive-date = 2016-09-18 }}

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