This blog will give you a brief overview of profiling C and C++ applications. Additionally, it will lay before you all of the tools available, with the purpose of aiding you in choosing the right tools at the right times.
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Hotspot A GUI for perf report
“I have also done some last minute performance improvements with the help of KDAB Hotspot/perf, and I must say that the days of profiling with weird/huge perf command line options are gone, awesome tool!” Hotspot is a KDAB R&D project to create a standalone GUI for performance data. It is a replacement for perf report. […]
Hotspot v1.1.0 adds timeline and recording features New release of the GUI for the Linux perf profiler
Close to three months after the initial hotspot release, I’m happy to announce the release of version 1.1.0. Quick recap: Hotspot is a graphical frontend to the Linux perf profiler suite. It allows you to visually analyze perf.data files with the built-in Flame Graph and the Bottom-Up, Top-Down, or Caller-Callee data tables. It is a […]
hotspot – a GUI for the Linux perf profiler First public release of hotspot v1.0.0 available
After many months of work, I’m very pleased to finally announce KDAB’s latest R&D project to the public: hotspot – a GUI for the Linux perf profiler. I have used Linux perf a lot over the past years.
Linux perf for Qt developers QtCon presentation
Are you a Qt developer and do you use Linux as your development platform of choice? Then this talk is for you: I will introduce you to perf, the Linux tool suite for performance analysis. The talk will not only cover a broad part of what perf has to offer, it will also dive into […]