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  10.           +o Support for IRIX 6.5 (including pthreads).
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  12.           +o New experiment hwctime: call stack sampling based on hw
  13.             counter overflows.
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  15.           +o Rld pc sampling based on time or hw counter overflows.
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  17.           +o Support for pollpoint caliper points.
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  19.           +o Deferred initialization and termination of performance
  20.             data collection based on signals.
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  22.           +o More accurate caliper point recording, including
  23.             labels.
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  25.           +o Atomic verbose output from the SpeedShop runtime so
  26.             that verbose messages from different processes are
  27.             printed orderly in stdout.
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  29.           +o Thread-safe libmalloc_ss.so.
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  31.           +o Improved format for the existing prof reports and
  32.             various new prof reports.
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  34.           +o Io experiment processing by prof.
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  36.           +o Revised prof command-line options and related
  37.             functionality.
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  39.           +o Better cord feedback generation methodologies via
  40.             sscord/ssorder and sswsextr.
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  42.           +o Pixie support for 6.5 pthreads.
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  44.           +o Improved performance of the SpeedShop tools (especially
  45.             prof and pixie).
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  47.           +o New ``-workshop'' command-line option for ssrun so that
  48.             SpeedShop experiment files and instrumented binaries
  49.             can be read by WorkShop 2.7 or later.
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