Peter Kessler

Peter Kessler is a Distinguished Engineer at Ampere Computing, LLC, with over 40 years of experience implementing programming languages and tools to measure and monitor their performance. He enjoys working on the boundary between software and hardware. He is a co-author of the original gprof profiler. (S. Graham, P. Kessler, and M. McKusick, “gprof: A Call Graph Execution Profiler”, Proceedings of the SIGPLAN ’82 Symposium on Compiler Construction, SIGPLAN Notices, 6, 17, pp. 120-126, June 1982.)