On Feb 21, 8:18 pm, Eric Johnson <eric.eerri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lars,
>
> On Feb 21, 8:27 am, Lars Ribe <larsr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear C++ people,
> > I was just wondering if anyone can recommend a profiler for Microsoft
> > Windows (for a project written in Borland Developer Studio 2006 if
> > that is of interest)?
>
> I can recommend Intel VTune as a performance analysis tool. Go to
> Intel's website find more info on how to get a copy.
>
> > Also, I have a lot of getters/setters and loops which I clearly
> > expects to be inlined and optimized when turning on optimization. Is
> > it possible to profile on optimized code or has the code been
> > "scrambled" so much that it is no longer possible to detect what is
> > what? If it is not possible, how can one determine what is the
> > bottleneck in optimized code (which clearly is the answer we are
> > looking for...)?
>
> When you want to profile your code, you generally want to create a
> special "profiling" build. A profiling build is like a "release"
> build (fully optimized), but it contains debugging symbols (like a
> "debug" build would).
> This way, the profiler is able to find function names, but is still
> using optimized code. Note that the profiler may have a hard time
> correlating an exact line of source code with the optimized machine
> code. They often will provide a disassembly viewer for this reason.
> You should consult the documentation for whatever profiling tool
> you decide to use for more detailed information about the process of
> profiling and optimizing your code.
>
> Good luck!
> -Eric

Thank you to both of you!

Lars