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From: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Subject: Stand alone perf.data parser (Was Re: Callgraph like kcachegrind)
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 07:58:07 -0700
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To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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On 7/6/12 12:40 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Another thing that could be interesting is a perf output mode that dumps
> informations in the Kcachegrind format: http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/CallgrindFormat.html
> so that Kcachegrind can open it.

I spent a night couple of months ago hacking on this:
https://github.com/adsharma/py-perf-parser

It needs to be combined with code that can symbolize raw IP addresses to 
make it more useful (pydevtools, pyelftools or parts of perf exported as 
a library)

Thought I'd post it here, so folks interested in transforming perf.data 
into something else can hack on it.

  -Arun