Re: Profiling and inlining

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Thanks for the advice. I didn't realize that instrumentation was
unreliable for timing. I'll proceed with the sampling in VSTE.

In that context, do you know of a good way to get a brakedown of which
statements in a big function are the time consuming ones? The Profiler
in VSTE will only tell me the time for the function itself.

Barry Kelly wrote:
ti@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I've done both. Though mostly instrumetation-based, since I was
interested in measures for which specific lines in a few big functions
were most costly.

Instrumentation can't reliably monitor time performance, since it
changes the code. For example, it typically prevents inlining. Usually,
a sampling profiler is needed, unless you're trying to track down a
problem that shows a method is being called more often than you think it
should be.

Quantify does this easily, and I don't think VS
2005's profiler does it.

VS 2005 Team Edition (I last looked in Beta 2, I only have Pro) appears
to have two profilers, one for instrumentation (best for memory
profiling) and another for sampling (best for time profiling).

-- Barry

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