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In addition, a performance advisor provides information about and analysis of
the data that Prism collects.
Performance data is available for both C* and CM Fortran programs.
See Chapter 6 for a complete discussion of performance analysis.
1.7 Editing and Compiling
You can call up the editor of your choice within Prism to edit source code (or
anything else). If you change your source code and want to recompile, Prism also
provides an interface to the UNIX make utility. See Chapter 7.
1.8 Obtaining On-Line Help and Documentation
Prism features a comprehensive on-line help system. Help is available for each
menu, window, and dialog box in Prism. In addition, the Help Index provides a
list of entries on which you can obtain information. Clicking on an entry displays
the topic in which the entry is discussed Each topic may have a list of related
topics, subtopics, terms, and commands associated with it; you can click on any
of these to open a new window displaying information about the selected item.
An on-line tutorial gives you hands-on experience in using Prism on a sample
program.
In addition to help on Prism itself, an interface is provided to on-line documentation
for the entire Connection Machine system. You can call up a manual page
for a CM command or library routine, or view the portions of the CM documentation
set that are most relevant to a specific question.
On-line help and documentation are described in more detail in Chapter 8.
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