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Unsure how to test performance on MacOS

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#73 opened on Aug 19, 2018

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Description

Where in the docs did you come across this? In the section on Time-Profiling, the author mentions using the Linux tool perf to test the results of cargo bench.

Describe what about it does not make sense Since I'm using a Mac, I don't have access to the perf tool, and I don't know of any equivalent tools I could use to get similar data.

How could we improve it? It would be nice to mention additional tools that could be used in MacOS or Windows. It would be even more helpful if you could also link to additional tutorials for how use them to test Rust

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Identify macOS performance profiling tools (e.g., Xcode Instruments, samply, dtrace) and propose adding a section in the book's documentation about using them with Rust benchmarks.
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