In the INSTRUCTION domain, to determine which vector instructions are used most by your program, enter the following command line: PCAC> PLOT/VCOUNTERS INSTRUCTION BY VOPCODE This command causes the report view to be based on the disassembled opcode for each vector instruction in the entire application that is sampled. The number of times a vector instruction is used lets you see if your application is spending a lot of time performing certain operations. For example, if you see that the SYNC vector instruction is executed more than any other vector instruction, you can infer that the scalar processor is spending too much idle time waiting for the vector processor to finish an operation.