Performance Validator Tutorials
The Tutorials
Getting Started
Why is Profiling Important?
Types of profiling: Sampling and instrumentation.
Callstack
Statistics and Relations.
Call Tree
Call Graph
Analysis
Line Timing
How to profile only selected parts of your application.
How to exclude profiling MFC for statically linked and dynamically linked applications.
How to restrict instrumentation to specific parts of your application.
How to improve instrumentation speed.
Customizing embedded statistics.
Identifying slow code.
Reseting statistics.
Using Stop and Start.
Performance profiling a .Net Core application
Performance profiling a .Net Core application child process
Performance profiling a service
Performance profiling for a service child process
Performance profiling an IIS ISAPI DLL
Performance Profiling ASP.Net with IIS
Performance profiling ASP.Net with Web Development Server
Command Line Performance Profiling a Child Process
Getting Started
The tutorials use the nativeExample.exe sample application to demonstrate performance analysis testing.
The example application provides a few standard demonstrations of sorting techniques, each of which has a different behaviour and performance characteristic.
Projects
The project file is nativeExample.vcxproj.
If you are using Visual Studio 6, The project file is nativeExample.dsp.
Build
The nativeExample.exe application is shipped as a project with source code.
The project can be found in the nativeExample directory in the same directory that Performance Validator was installed in.
Please compile all configurations of the sample application before continuing the tutorial.
Overview
The tutorials will demonstrate simple source code Performance techniques and more advanced techniques such as merging results and creating regression tests.