Optimize!

If you''re using Windows and Visual C++ it''s called ''Profiler''. (Not all version have it though, afaik)

Code profilers do exactly this. If you''re using Microsoft Visual C++, I believe most versions have one built in, you should check out the documentation on it. Several code-based profilers are also available for other platforms however, which you can add to your project.

Thanks a lot guys!

AMD also have a freely available profiler called CodeAnalyst:

http://www.developwithamd.com/appPartnerProg/codeanalyst/home/index.cfm?action=home

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Simon O''Connor
3D Game Programmer &
Microsoft DirectX MVP

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Original post by Wildfire
If you''re using Windows and Visual C++ it''s called ''Profiler''. (Not all version have it though, afaik)

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And if you''re using linux with gcc is''t called a profiler also . Does matter what compiler/os you''re using, the name of the tool is a profiler.

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And if you''re using linux with gcc is''t called a profiler also . Does matter what compiler/os you''re using, the name of the tool is a profiler.

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Yeah, you''re right... the tool is called a profiler. But that doesn''t say it has to be called ''Profiler'' anywhere. I could write a profiler app, and call it ''SpeedAlyser'' if I felt like it, couldn''t I?

If you want to bench very accurately some routines called inside loops, I advise you to use the asm instruction RDTSC (available on most PC CPUs). It's the only way to be one clock cycle precise when you code some extremely strategic asm routines.

[edited by - Charles B on November 29, 2003 12:54:27 PM]

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Original post by Wildfire
Yeah, you''re right... the tool is called a profiler. But that doesn''t say it has to be called ''Profiler'' anywhere. I could write a profiler app, and call it ''SpeedAlyser'' if I felt like it, couldn''t I?

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Yes, but by your own admission, it would still be a profiler, and would therefore most likely be categorized as such wherever it was promoted.

Your opinion is wrong.

Q.E.D.

-ZE


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