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What’s new with Performance Validator
There are many changes coming to Performance Validator. I’m going to describe the various changes and the reasons behind them. Name Change The first one […]
Monitoring a service with the NT Service API
Debugging services is a pain. There is a lot that can go wrong and very little you can do to find out what went wrong. […]
More Effective Line Timing with C++ Performance Validator
C++ Performance Validator has always had the ability to provide timing information for each line executed. However it has always been a bit clumsy to […]
New graphics in Performance Validator
We’ve just introduced some new visualisations of performance data into C++ Performance Validator and .Net Performance Validator. The new visualisations make it much easier to […]
64 bit C++ software tool Beta Tests are complete.
We recently closed the beta tests for the 64 bit versions of C++ Coverage Validator, C++ Memory Validator, C++ Performance Validator and C++ Thread Validator. […]
Command line support for .Net services and ASP.Net
Today we have released updated versions of our software tools for .Net: .Net Coverage Validator, .Net Memory Validator and .Net Performance Validator. The updates to […]
Perl Profiling API
For some time we have had tools for use with Perl in the beta stage. The reason the tools never left beta is because the […]
Doing good work can make you feel a bit stupid
Doing good work can make you feel a bit stupid, well that’s my mixed bag of feelings for this weekend. Here is why… Last week […]
The cost of using OutputDebugString
Should you use OutputDebugString? Is that an unusual question to ask? How often have you thought about the potential cost of using OutputDebugString (or TRACE, […]
Speed up your MFC program without a profiler!
I’m going to explain how to potentially improve the performance of MFC programs using CMap<> and related containers (CMapStringToPtr, etc) by a substantial amount. We […]