RE: [GD-General] Compile times

[Donavon K. <kei...@ea...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gam...@li...
> [mailto:gam...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Matt Newport
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:02 AM
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: RE: [GD-General] Compile times
> 
> Is there a decent profiler for C#? I would be a lot more comfortable
about
> trying it out if I knew that I had a good profiler so I could quickly
spot
> any areas which might be candidates for replacement with C++ code. If
> something with similar functionality to VTune is available for C# (as
far
> as I know VTune itself is not?) then performance concerns would be
easier
> to address.

Apparently VTune 6 profiles .NET (I don't have it myself), so the short
answer to your question would appear to be "Yes."

GotDotNet lists four other commercial profilers and one free profiler.

The .NET CLR has very decent profiling support.  For simple purposes you
can read runtime statistics or look at the performance counters.  It's
also relatively easy to roll your own profiler (see 'Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio.NET\FrameworkSDK\Tool Developers
Guide\docs\Profiling.doc').  Matt Pietrek wrote an 'Under the Hood'
article on this
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/12/hood/default.aspx).

And I'll just throw this in: "Improve Your Understanding of .NET
Internals by Building a Debugger for Managed Code"
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/11/CLRDebugging/default.asp
x)

--Donavon