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Profiler-driven program analysis on Unix dates back to at least 1979,{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} when Unix systems included a basic tool, <code>prof</code>, which listed each function and how much of program execution time it used. In 1982 <code>gprof</code> extended the concept to a complete [[call graph]] analysis.<ref name="gprof">
S.L. Graham, P.B. Kessler, and M.K. McKusick, [http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/psd/18.gprof/paper.pdf ''gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler''], Proceedings of the SIGPLAN '82 Symposium on Compiler Construction, ''[[SIGPLAN]] Notices'', Vol. 17, No 6, pp. 120-126; [[doi:10.1145/800230.806987]]</ref>
In 1994, Amitabh Srivastava and [[Alan Eustace]] of [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] published a paper describing ATOM<ref>
A. Srivastava and A. Eustace, [http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece548/tools/atom/man/wrl_94_2.pdf ''ATOM: A system for building customized program analysis tools''], Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming language design and implementation (PLDI '94), pp. 196-205, 1994; ACM ''SIGPLAN Notices'' - Best of PLDI 1979-1999 Homepage archive, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 528-539; [[doi:10.1145/989393.989446]]
</ref>(Analysis Tools with OM). The ATOM platform converts a program into its own profiler: at [[compile time]], it inserts code into the program to be analyzed. That inserted code outputs analysis data. This technique - modifying a program to analyze itself - is known as "[[Instrumentation (computer programming)|instrumentation]]".▼
▲(Analysis Tools with OM). The ATOM platform converts a program into its own profiler: at [[compile time]], it inserts code into the program to be analyzed. That inserted code outputs analysis data. This technique - modifying a program to analyze itself - is known as "[[Instrumentation (computer programming)|instrumentation]]".
In 2004 both the <code>gprof</code> and ATOM papers appeared on the list of the 50 most influential [[Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation|PLDI]] papers for the 20-year period ending in 1999.<ref>
[http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/20-years.html 20 Years of PLDI (1979–1999): A Selection], [[Kathryn S. McKinley]], Editor
==Profiler types based on output ==
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