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25    <title>Tools User's Guide</title>
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31  <description>
32    <p>The <em>Tools</em> application contains a number of stand-alone
33      tools, which are useful when developing Erlang programs.</p>
34    <taglist>
35      <tag><em>cover</em></tag>
36      <item>A coverage analysis tool for Erlang.</item>
37      <tag><em>cprof</em></tag>
38      <item>A profiling tool that shows how many
39       times each function is called. Uses a kind of local call trace
40       breakpoints containing counters to achieve very low runtime
41       performance degradation.</item>
42      <tag><em>emacs - (erlang.el and erlang-start.el)</em></tag>
43      <item>This package provides support
44       for the programming language Erlang in Emacs. The package provides an
45       editing mode with lots of bells and whistles, compilation
46       support, and it makes it possible for the user to start Erlang
47       shells that run inside Emacs.</item>
48      <tag><em>eprof</em></tag>
49      <item>A time profiling tool; measure how time is used in Erlang
50       programs. Erlang programs. Predecessor of <em>fprof</em> (see below).</item>
51      <tag><em>fprof</em></tag>
52      <item>Another Erlang profiler; measure how time is used in your
53       Erlang programs. Uses trace to file to minimize runtime
54       performance impact, and displays time for calling and called
55       functions.</item>
56      <tag><em>instrument</em></tag>
57      <item>Utility functions for obtaining and analysing resource usage
58       in an instrumented Erlang runtime system.</item>
59      <tag><em>lcnt</em></tag>
60      <item>A lock profiling tool for the Erlang runtime system.</item>
61      <tag><em>make</em></tag>
62      <item>A make utility for Erlang similar to UNIX make.</item>
63      <tag><em>tags</em></tag>
64      <item>A tool for generating Emacs TAGS files from Erlang source
65       files.</item>
66      <tag><em>xref</em></tag>
67      <item>A cross reference tool. Can be used to check dependencies
68       between functions, modules, applications and releases.</item>
69    </taglist>
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