Perf API vs Ftrace

Hi all,

I am trying to write an application to do complete process profiling. Currently i am following the way of using ftrace.
I enable some events and parse the text from trace_pipe.
i create csv of all the stats which i will use later to create graphs. But recently i came across Perf API.
Is Perf API better option than writing something over ftrace.?

Thanks
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