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Abstract

An interactive user interface system and method that creates graphic and text displays of computer program execution analysis results that include CPU execution time in tick or frequency counts. The interface system utilizes a display monitor (120), a mouse (130), which enables a user to input display commands, and a computer system (110) that is connected to the monitor (120) and the mouse (120). The computer system includes analysis results (165) and a user interface routine (170); the latter for displaying a plurality of, e.g., four windows (201, 280, 290, 291) on the monitor. The first and second windows (201, 290) have both text displays (214, 292) for displaying an annotated summary report (166), an annotated source listing (167) and an annotated assembly listing (168), and graphics displays (213, 298) for displaying graphs (256, 266, 294) of the counts. The third and fourth windows (280, 291) are displayed under user control to list file names corresponding to the annotated listings in the text displays. The text and graphics displays and windows are highlighted (270, 275, 286, 297, 296, 299) to accent high counts and the present display locations. The user can manipulate the displayed information, via the mouse, to investigate selected areas thereof in detail.

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