<div>I would like to ask you all what your preferred method is to detect if and how strongly an application is cpu-, memory- or I/O-bound. Do you</div>
<div>1) just run the app. on different machines (with diff. characteristics)</div>
<div>2) use the profiler</div>
<div>3) use hardware monitors such as cache-miss rate, ...</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance,</div>
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