profiler

How do code profilers work?

While I was working on an University project, I used a project-internal profiler made by an elder student, it was very basic but good enough since its task was to subtract times between two points of the code and to give statistics. Now, how does a professional profiler work? Does it preprocess the code to insert checkpoints or stuff l...

Profiling a COM application?

I have a big application written in Visual Basic 6 and I need to profile it. Is there something like ANTS Profiler but for COM applications? ...

Where is the content of a java piped stream 'stored' ?

I am running my application under a profiler. The 'class' that has the most memory consumption is the 'char[]' which is about 10kB in my application. I then created an InputStream (PipedInputStream to be exact) which holds a byte array data of 300MB. Then I took a look at my profiler, and I don't see any significant change ( don't see...

What advantages have a commercial Java profiler over the free ones, e.g. the one in Netbeans?

Occasionally I have to do some profiling work on Java code, and I would like to know why I should have my boss investigate in a commercial profiler as opposed to just use the one in Netbeans or JConsole? What would the killer features be that would warrant the investment? ...

What are the key differences between Visual Studio Team Systems profiling tools and tools like ANTS or dotTrace?

I'm trying to understand the key differences between the profiling tools built into Visual Studio Team System and those provided by third parties like Red-Gate and Jet Brains. Can anyone provide some links? I'm having a difficult time finding some good comparisons. ...

What free, low-overhead (statistical) profilers one can use under Linux?

Preferably from Ubuntu repositories. ...

Can the Flex Builder Profiler be used with an AIR application?

I am trying to profile my AIR app in Flex Builder. The app is starting but not the profiler. Is it actually possible to profile AIR apps in FlexBuilder? ...

Can I get sql profiler for sql2008 for free?

Hi, Is it possible to get sql profiler for sql2008 for free or you have to have a license to get it? i.e. it won't work with sql express ...

How to profile one library solution with Visual Studio 2008 Profiler Tool(s)?

I have read and practiced the MSDN's Profiler Tutorial. But I couldn't find a way to profile a library solution (the button "Launch with profiling" is disabled for libraries). The only solution I could think of so far is to create an executable project just for profiling purposes. I have already written unit tests for my library, using...

JavaScript Profiler like JetBrains dotTrace?

I'm a big fan of dotTrace for my web application and I wanted to find a solid javascript profiler that functions about the same way. I've looked around and can't seem to find a JavaScript profiler like that. Anyone know of a Javascript profiler like dotTrace? ...

Best C# Profiler?

Recently I used RedGate ANTS profiler which seems pretty good, but the application I tried to profile was crashing due to DivideByException, where as running in inside Visual Studio was fine for both debug and release. Are there other/better C# profilers that you know of? ...

winforms profiling - dotTrace 3.1 or Ants 4.3

are there any particular features in one versus another that would help me decide which to purchase for a winforms app. I am looking for both memory, cpu, performance bottlenecks. ...

Firebug Profile

Hi, Can firebug profile work over HTTPS? I have used it over HTTP and it works but when I try it on HTTPS there is no details displayed i.e functions called, time taken etc. Thanks ...

How do you measure the performance of your Silverlight applications?

What are some tools/practices used to measure performance with Silverlight? I am interested in the performance costs of rendering certain xaml objects as well as algorithms I have written. I was about to start writing my own classes for this, but I thought I would ask here first. Thank you in advance. ...

Missing Join Predicate Warning

I'm running a SQL Server 2005 trace using profiler. I'm seeing some missing join predicate warnings, but I can't determine where its occurring with the data they are giving me. All I have is the transactionID. Any way to find out what object is causing this? ...

Memory allocation profilers for managed and unmanaged code?

My application runs a combination of C++ (COM objects) and C# managed code. Sadly there is a n elusive memory leak I need to trace down. I've tried AQTime, which looked good on paper, but my app keeps crashing when running underneath it. Any suggestion for a better alternative? Thanks, Boaz ...

What profiling tools are available for C#.NET?

Edit: Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3927/what-are-some-good-net-profilers In a previous life as a C++ developer on Linux, I found the built-in profiler gprof to be very handy for finding the best targets for optimization. Is there a similar tool available for C# or the .NET CLR in general? What profiling tool options...

Finding where memory was last freed?

Very general: Is there an easy way to tell which line of code last freed a block of memory when an access violation occurs? Less general: My understanding of profilers is that they override the allocation and deallocation processes. If this is true, might they happen to store the line of code that last freed a section of memory so that...

Open source profiler for analyzing low-level architectural inefficiencies?

Modern processors use all sorts of tricks to bridge the gap between the large speed of their processing elements and the tardiness of the external memory. In performance-critical applications the way you structure your code can often have a considerable influence on its efficiency. For instance, researchers using the SLO analyzer were ...

PerfConsole and Visual Studio 2008 Team System Profiler

Does the PerfConsole work with the output from the VS 2008 Team System Profiler output? (.vsp files) When I try and run 'load' on the output file I get an error message: "Couldn't match to either expected sampled or instrumented profile schema, defaulting to sampled" ...