One of the enhancements to TotalView 4.0, which was introduced earlier this year, was support for the SunPro 5.0 compiler. Historically technical applications performance has benefited as much from improvements in software as from improvements in hardware. Analytic tools such as TotalView help programmers manage the increased complexity of both the underlying hardware and advanced applications by providing facilities to track the control flow of a program, monitor values of program variables, and follow the activities of multiple processes within a program. It also enables developers to unravel and control multiple threads and processes running on single or multiple processor systems. The analyzer automatically acquires processes and threads in multiprocess programs, provides developers greater flexibility in controlling the program and graphically displays data arrays.
Users can easily dive on program objects and structures for more detail.
TotalView is continually updated to accommodate programming paradigms and platforms. Privately held, Etnus offers its expanding product line through worldwide distributors.